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sound the depth of a river, rejected his food, and actually 

 died under the sense of his disgrace. 



The same intelligent creature shall afford us an illustra- 

 tion of sympathy, so strong as to overcome even the 

 obedience habitual to the animal. Bishop Heber saw an 

 old half-starved elephant fall under his work, and being 

 unable to rise, another of very large size was brought to 

 assist him. "I was much struck," says the good Prelate, 

 " with the almost human expression of surprise, alarm, and 

 perplexity in his countenance, when he approached his fallen 

 companion. They fastened a chain round his neck and 

 the body of the sick beast, and urged him in all ways, by 

 encouragement and blows, to drag him up, even thrusting 

 spears into his flanks. He pulled stoutly for a minute; 

 but on the first groan his companion gave, he stopped 

 short, and turned fiercely round with a loud roar, and 

 with his trunk and fore-feet began to attempt to loosen 

 the chain from his neck." 



Dr Abel, in his minute account of the manners of a 

 Bornean Orang, speaks of the fits of passionate anger into 

 which he would sometimes fall. " If repeatedly refused 

 an orange, when he attempted to take it, he would shriek 

 violently, and swing furiously about the ropes; then return 

 and endeavour to obtain it : if again refused, he would roll 

 for some time like an angry child upon the deck, uttering 

 the most piercing screams, and then suddenly starting up, 

 rush furiously over the side of the ship, and disappear. 

 On first witnessing this act, we thought he had thrown 

 himself into the sea; bu-, on a search being made, we 

 found him concealed under the chains." 



The worthy Doctor says that this act, in a rational 



