MAMMALOGY. 



alarms were needless, the crockery-ware and glasses were in no 

 danger from the presence of poor Jocko ; he behaved with so much 

 mildness and good manners that the landlord was upon the best terms 

 possible with his customers at parting, and not a little gratified with 

 the novelty of the visit. 



It was not the least amusing part of the demeanour of this 

 sagacious being to observe the manner in which, v/hile enjoying these 

 morning rides, he would take off the rind of an orange, peeling it, 

 and as he peeled it gathering the rind into the hollow of his hand, 

 and when his hand was full, throwing it out of the coach-window, 

 and if any pieces had fallen from his hand picking them up and 

 throwing them away also. So likewise in a room, when an orange 

 was presented to him, he took the rind off with the same attention to 

 cleanliness, gathering the rind in peeling into his hand, and then 

 casting it away into the fire-place or some obscure corner of the room. 

 This is a peculiarity in the manners of the Orang-Outang ; an ape 

 or monkey instead would be content to bite an orange and suck out 

 the juice. The Orang-Outang after eating would also pick his teeth 

 with his finger-nails, which the apes and monkeys are never observed 

 to do ; he had been likewise taught to pour out a glass of liquor 

 from a bottle, a feat he performed with much facility and adroitness. 



In his native climate the Orang-Outang had every opportunity 

 of indulging an epicurean taste in the choice of food, many of the 

 fruits peculiar to those parts of the globe being of the most delicious 

 flavour and in great abundance ; in England he had not those 

 advantages ; the fruits we rear appeared to be less grateful to him 

 than might be imagined, he would partake of tlicm, but his greaiest 

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