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liim witli a sufficiency of pvovciuler. W'licu tVoiii 

 any of his ludicrous actions at tabic wc all burst 



mi % lotrf: laugbter^ te ymlA tmt h% Jndig- 



uttering Lis peculiar hollow harking noise, at 

 the same time inflatiu*^' the air sac, and regard- 

 ing the jiersons laughing witli a most serious 

 look* xmtil they had ceased, wliaj; W«ld 



The animal had an utter dislike to confiue*- 

 m^tf and wns of puch a social disposition as 

 always to prefer company, to being left alone : 

 y^hm skat up his rage was very violent, throw- 

 ing mmf thing about was lymg Ttear, 

 or that he could move, in his place of confine- 

 ment, hut becoming perfectly quiet when released. 

 When the animal was standing with his hack 

 towards the spectator, his being tail-less, and 

 s£aitdi% ^dcff gare him th« apfiie{ti^ne^ otf a 

 little black hairy man ; and such au object might 

 easily have been regarded by the superstitious 

 as one of the inferiud imps. 



When he walks, to use a nautical pln"ase, 

 ''^Ik^ awajf body,'* and stepping at once on 

 die whole ^ mtder surfaise the foot^ ocoa^ 

 sions a patteriilg^ Jiolse, like that which is heard 

 when a duck, or any aquatic bird, walks ou tlie 

 deck of a ship. 



