MAMMALOGY 



presented it to Sir Everard Home, who with much proper feeling, 

 directed it to be sent to the Exeter Change Menagery, that it might 

 be carefully attended to while it lived, desiring only to have the body 

 when it should die. The animal, it seems, was received during the 

 absence of Mr. Cross ; and the keepers aware of the importance of 

 their charge, but ignorant alike of his social disposition, and his im- 

 patience under all restraint, lodged him for the night in a large cage 

 faced with iron railing. He was, however, much fatigued, and 

 rested very quietly for that time upon a litter of straw, and his little 

 blanket wrapped round his head and shoulders. But awaking in 

 the morning he became sensible of his situation, and began to exert 

 himself to the utmost in the destruction of his prison ; the bars were, 

 however, too strong to yield to his effort, and he would no doubt have 

 shortly destroyed himself had he not been liberated. He was next 

 allowed a separate room to himself ; and a number of cords stretched 

 across just below the ceiling, formed a kind of hammock, with a litter of 

 straw and blankets upon which he was destined to repose. To this he 

 signified no opposition ; during the day time he mounted his hammock 

 and descended as required while company were present, with much 

 apparent satisfaction ; but, when night arrived, and Jocko found 

 himself deserted by all, and fastened into the apartment, his pla- 

 cidity forsook him, for when at midnight his keepers alarmed by the 

 strange noises they had heard entered into the room, they found him 

 most busily engaged in the demonstrations of his displeasure : the 

 little being had by main strength torn down a large bath stove from 

 the fire place : the stove lay prostrate, as a testimony of his prowess 

 and industry, upon the middle of the floor, and he was continuing 

 his labours with great ardour, to remove the remainder of the brick- 

 work in which the stove had been set, in order, as it appeared, to 

 effect a passage from his prison through the walls of the chimney. 



