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the occasion of two or three large sea turtles being brought on board ; 

 when either to escape from them, or the better to inspect them, he ran 

 up the shrouds immediately, and while surveying them from above 

 appeared in deep amazement, projecting at the same time his mouth 

 into the form of a hog's snout and uttering a piercing cry, which 

 Mr. Abel likens to the grunting of a pig and the croaking of a frog. 

 Upon another occasion, according to Mr. Abel, he appears to have 

 been much concerned at seeing some men bathing naked in the sea, 

 probably from an apprehension that they were in danger, for these 

 animals are said to have no little dread of the danger of being them- 

 selves immersed in the watery element. We have ourselves 

 once seem him under manifest symptoms of displeasure and alarm 

 from the over anxious investigation of some young medical pro- 

 fessors, who availing themselves of the momentary absence of the keeper, 

 were rather too desirous of ascertaining the anatomical accuracy 

 of Camper and Geoffroy, and were pressing and pinching the several 

 parts of his head and body, without reflecting that the poor captive 

 was neither insensible to pain nor ill-treatment. However desirable 

 that information might be at such a period, for there was at that time no 

 anatomical preparation of the animal in England, humanity impelled 

 our interference in his favour, and the expression of gratitude in his 

 countenance towards us was too obvious to be mistaken. He availed 

 himself of this opportunity to escape, mounting in an instant up to 

 his hammock of cordage near the ceiling, where, throwing a little 

 blanket round him like a cloak, he sate a mimic resemblance of a 

 hermit. From this lofty position he semed to contemplate with a 

 mixed degree of emotion and restlessness, chattering all the while, the 

 group below, and it was pretty well understood that but for the pre- 

 sence of his friends among his aggressors, he might, being then in 

 safety, have shewn some further testimony of his displeasnre. 



