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Orang-Outang, and frequently renew their intrusions upon his 

 company with familiarity for that purpose, he would never con- 

 descend to romp with them, as he was ever prone to do with willing- 

 ness with the sailor-boys on board ; the monkeys, on the other hand, 

 would often creep by stealth to his cot and play their antics with him : 

 once indeed he did deign to notice and punish a monkey that was 

 gambolling and leaping over him as he was lying in his bed, for he 

 caught the unfortunate culprit by the tail and thrust him among the 

 blankets, and the offending monkey found himself in a state of captivity 

 by no means agreeable in reward for his temerity. The same antipathy 

 towards these analogous beings was no less manifest in his demeanour 

 towards them in the menagery afterwards, and it appears certain, as 

 we have in another place observed, that he would not be sociable with 

 any animal, except a dog ; with the latter he would play and romp 

 just like a boy, patting him on one side of the head and then on the 

 other, catching him by the tail, and rolling him over and over upon 

 the floor. Among other traits of his dislike for the monkey race, 

 there is one recorded of him while he remained on board the Caesar 

 that deserves repeating ; some monkeys that were confined in a cage 

 on board had happened to receive a present to which he seems to have 

 thought himself entitled, and he was very shortly after seen holding 

 the cage of captives over the ship's side, just ready to drop them into 

 the sea ; they were of course relieved from their perilous situation 

 and Jocko dismissed with a proper reprimand. 



The Orang-Outang, so far as we can judge from the example 

 brought to England by Mr. Abel, is not easily'dismayed by the fear 

 of danger : the only instance in which the animal was observed to 

 testify any symptom of alarm while on board the Caesar, was upon 



