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YEETEBRATA. 
" M. Werner, a celebrated painter of natural history, wished to make a sketch of her, Jacqueline 
showed great surprise on seeing her image on the paper, and made signs that she wished to draw 
also. They gave her a pencil and paper, and seating herself gravely at the table of the artist, 
traced with great joy some large figures and lines. As she bore on heavily, the point of her 
pencil broke, and she was very much vexed. To console her, the drawing-master cut her pencil, 
and, learning by experience, she did not bear on so heavily the next time. Having observed M. 
Werner put the point of the pencil into his mouth, she did the same, but in so doing she always 
broke the point with her teeth. It was impossible to prevent this, and so they were obliged to 
put an end to her artistic studies. She tried to sew, in imitation of the woman who took care of 
her, but she constantly pricked her fingers. She therefore threw her work away, and jumping 
upon a rope that had been stretched across the room for her amusement, she made some turn- 
overs that would have astonished the boldest rope-dancer. 
"Jacqueline had a dog and cat that she was very fond of. She allowed them to sleep with her, 
one on each side ; but notwithstanding this apparent familiarity, she knew how to preserve the 
place due to her on account of her superior intelligence, and Avhen she judged it necessary, chas- 
tised them severely to make them obedient to her, and to force them to live together without 
quarreling. 
" Poor Jacqueline was in the habit of washing licr hands and face every morning with cold 
water. These ablutions, added to the rigoi's of a climate so difterent from that of Africa, probably 
caused the consumption of which she died. Jack, the orang-outang that had lived in the cell 
before her arrival, and also the chimpanzees formerly owned by BulTon and the Empress Josephine, 
died of the same disease," 
Many other accounts have been furnished of the chimpanzee, from which we select the follow- 
ing description of a young male of this species : it was read before the Zoological Society of Lon- 
don, October 27th, 1835, by Mr. Broderip. Its habits, in a state of confinement, are drawn with 
graphic power and a spirit truly delightful : 
"The interesting animal whoso habits in captivity I attempt to describe, was brought to Bristol 
in the autumn of this year, by Captain Wood, from the Gambia coast. The natives, from whom 
he received it, stated that they had brought it about one hundred and twenty miles from the 
interior of the country, and that its age was about twelve months. The mother was with it, and, 
accordino- to their i-eport, stood four feet six inches in height. Her they shot, and so became 
possessed of her young one. During the period of his being on ship-board, in coming to England, 
he was very lively. He had a free range, frequently ran up the rigging, and showed great affec- 
tion for those sailors who treated him kindly. 
"IsawhuBfoi- the first time on the 14th instant, in the kitchen belonging to the keeper's 
apartments. Dressed in a little Guernsey shirt, or banyan jacket, he was sitting, child-like, in the 
lap of a good old woman, to whom he clung whenever she made a show of putting him down. 
His aspect was mild and pensive, like that of a little withered old man ; and his large eyes, hair- 
less and wrinkled visage, and manlike ears, surmounted by the black hair of his head, rendered 
the resemblance very striking, notwithstanding the depressed nose and the projecting mouth. He 
had already become very fond of his good old nurse, and she had evidently become attached to 
her nursling, though they had been acquaintea only three or four days ; and it was with difficulty 
that he permitted her to go away to do her work in another part of the building. In her lap he 
was perfectly at his ease ; and it seemed to me that he considered her as occupying the place of 
his mother. He was constantly reaching up with his hand to the fold of her neckerchief, though 
when he did so she checked him, saying, ' No, Tommy, you must not pull the pin out.' When 
not otherwise occupied, he would sit quietly in her lap, pulling his toes about with his fingers 
with the same pensive air as a human child exhibits when amusing itself in the same manner. 
I wished to examine his teeth ; and when his nurse, in order to make him open his mouth, threw 
him back in her arras and tickled him, just as she would have acted toward a child, the caricature 
was complete. 
" I offered him my ungloved hand. He took it mildly in his, with a manner equally exempt 
from forwardness and fear : examining it with his eyes, and perceiving a ring on one of my fingers, 
