KANGAROO^ 
of it's place of confinement, it for a little 
time went on all fours, but soon assumed an 
upright attitude. It would sport with it's- 
keeper in very singular manner : it first 
placed it's tail in a perpendicular manner j 
cre6led it's body on it as a^ prop ; and then, 
raising it's whok, body, darted it's hind legs, 
on the breast of the man. It was capable of 
striking with great force, if provoked ; and it 
could scratch violently with it's fore claws,'* 
It is, according to Pennant, a very ano- 
malous animal : but has more relation ro the 
Opossum genus than any other ; though, in 
the form of it's legs, he acknowledges, it 
comes very near to the Javan. 
White remarks that, *' in it's mode of pro- 
pagation, it comes nearer to the Opossum than 
any other animal ; although it is not at all 
similar to it in other respedts. 
The Kangaroo, we are informed, by a gen- 
tleman w^ell acquainted wiih the animal in it's 
natural state, becomes domesticated in a very 
few 
