PLATE LVIL 



After this atchievement, the keepers perceiving there would be 

 no tranquillity if he should be left alone, one of them consented to 

 have his bed brought into the room, and allow Jocko to lie down 

 upon it. Jocko observing this, became very peaceable, sitting aloft 

 upon his hammock and watching all their movements ; and when 

 he saw, by the light of his burning lamp, that his keeper had laid 

 down, he descended, approaching the bed very deliberately, turned 

 down the bed clothes and slipping into bed stretched himself out 

 upon his back at his full length, and went to sleep ; the keeper 

 struck with the circumstance, allowed him to remain till morning. 

 Subsequently a bed was always made up for Jocko, close to that 

 of his keeper, which he regularly entered by turning aside the 

 bed clothes, and when laid down stretching himself as before to the 

 full extent upon his back, and going to sleep with his head above the 

 bed clothes, exactly in conformity with the actions of his keeper 

 when he retired to bed. And he never failed upon these occasions, 

 when he had laid down, to extend his arm across the bed, and place 

 it upon the breast of his keeper, just as a child would do in testi- 

 mony of affection. 



Much has been said to prove that the habitual progress of this 

 race of animals upon the ground, resembles that of a human being 

 crippled in the legs and moving with the aid of crutches. This is 

 represented as a mode of proceeeding that enables the animal to go 

 forward with much facility upon the ground, or any other level sur- 

 face ; and this appears by no means improbable, because from the 

 great extent of arm a very slight posterior inclination of the body is 

 alone requisite to allow the hands or clenched fist to reach beyond 

 the feet, either before, behind, or laterally, as such a manner of pro- , 



