f8 TRAVELS IN 
is there any enjoyment without liberty ? My 
ape, befider, poflefled a degree of moral per- 
ception, which rendered his fituation more 
painful than it would have been to a vulgar 
ape. The moment he faw me, he flew the 
whole length of his chain to meet me ; and k 
was me in particular that he feemed to upbraid 
with ingratitude for his captivity. The period 
of rendering him happy every day drew nearer 
I hardened myfelf againft his importunities, 
for I loved him too well to give him an impru- 
dent teftim.ony of my aiFedion. 
In reality, I fhould have had every thing to 
fear if I had had the weaknefs to have yielded 
to pity. He might have efcaped of his own 
accord. A fentiment ftill ftronger than fiiend^ 
fliip might every infcant have allured him a- 
way. It is not with the ape as with other do^ 
meflic animals, whom inftind attaches to the 
foii where they have been brought up, and 
who always return to it ; whether, Hke the dog,; 
they have greater fondnefs for the mafter than 
the houfe ; or, like the cat, more attachment to- 
the houfe than the mafter. The ape, on the 
contrary, indocile and refradory, incapable of 
lafling remembrance either of the one or of 
the other, retains a propenfity to independence,, 
3 which 
