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back, paler about the face and under the throat, 
reddish towards the rump ; no tail ; a dorsal stripe, 
broad, chesnut-coloured, narrower towards the 
neck; a head almost spherical; a countenance, 
expressive and interesting; eyes round, large, ap- 
proximated, weak in the day-time, glowing and 
animated at night ; a white vertical stripe between 
them; eye-lashes, black, short; ears dark, round- 
ed, concave ; great acuteness at night, both in see- 
ing and hearing ; a face, hairy, flattish ; a nose 
pointed, not much elongated; the upper lip cleft; 
canine teeth, comparatively long, very sharp. 
More than this I could not observe in the liv- 
ing animal ; and he died at a season when I could 
neither attend a dissection of his body, nor with 
propriety request my medical friends to perform 
such an operation in the heat of August; but I 
opened his jaw, and counted only two incisors 
above, and as many below, which might have 
been a defect in the individual ; and it is men- 
tioned simply as a fact, without any intention to 
censure the generic arrangement of Linnseus. 
II. In his manners he was for the most part 
gentle, except in the cold season, when his tem- 
per seemed wholly changed; and his creator, who 
made him so sensible of cold, to which he must 
often have been exposed even in his native forests^ 
gave him, probably for that reason, his thick fur, 
which we rarely see on animals in these tropical 
climates : to me, who not only constantly fed him, 
but bathed him twice a week in water accommo- 
dated to the seasons, and whom he clearly dis- 
