stand : lie ueemed to have an extraordinary pen-* 



(by jilacing bis Hiioer in the inkstand^ nsd'tibeiil 

 mucking,' it.) and suck tlie pens, whenever [in np- 

 ]iortnnity offered oi" gratifying this morbid pro- 

 pensity : his black coat did not suifer from 

 his dabhh'ng in hiky iittUltfe ix^ny<tf the buman 

 gprt irs, who suffer botfe iji coastitoia<Wj«ail ap- 

 part'l tVoiu nioihlling too much with it. 



Thi-rtj wa^ a di'give of intelH<>*ence in the ani- 

 niai, beyond wlmt is usually termed common in- 



are tejrxn^,) sekM to pdisigsg mm& 



sagacity tlian other animals, and to be a close 

 eonnectin'i- b'nk between the " powerful lord 

 of ihe creation,'" and creatures of an inferior 



* " Hanno sailed from Sierra Leone sQutherly to tlie eijui- 

 nox, where life -iamyv^e^ ah Wttd, not tkt fh)m the A^cin 



coast, inhabited by a rougli and iiairy people, to take one of 

 whom, he used all possible means, but could not: only two 

 wome/ti being encompassed by soldiers, were taken and car- 

 ried aboard; but bting very savage, and barbarously wild, 

 cniilil not be tamed, or brought to any complacency ; so they 

 killed tlieiu, and carried their stufted-up skins to Carthage, 

 ^^fhm^ titey were a long time gaz^^ Va^ yii!^^rm^4^ireh 

 fioff. Tliifi i<laiKl, wliith llanno tlien found, can be no ottii0r 

 but that \\ hich we call Hi. Tliomas ; and the hairy pe^k 

 wMcli Ke^nke^ menti^^f ^v^^ tiabemis, t>rMiM>fi8j which 



Arvi< a, in this p|;KM\ hi tt tls lnrp:o. tn the aniJRSreiWettt 

 beholders." — (Jff/lf/i/\s Aiiinnfi, p. 20. 



