igo , 
or restraint ; to prepare its bed with exactnessj 
itself to sleep in a proper manner. Such are the ■ 
corded of one which was exhibited in Lond® ' 
year 1738. . ^ miltl' 
The orang-outang described by Bufion was i 
tionate, and good-natured. His air was gC j 
gait grave, liis movements measured, his disposjU 
and "very difrcrent from those of other ‘''P°®'„i|cio‘''y 
nciiber the impatience of the Barbary ape, the 
of the baboon, nor the extravagance ot 
It maybe alleged, ob.sciTes this writer, that ho ‘ 
benefit of instruction ; but the other apes I gjgii’ 
with him were educated in the same mannei. 
words alone were sufficient to make our 
but the baboon required a cudgel, and the^ 1 ^, 
> 
MISCELLANEOUS WONDERS 
OF NATDES' 
□ UL UlU UdUUUAl Cl loiVi’* ■rv' 
whip ; for none of them would obey without 
seen this animal present his hand to conduct ^ 
who came to visit liini, and walk as gravely alo‘’n 
as if he had formed a part of the company. 
him sit down at table, unfold his napkin, wipe u „,,-j 
brought a cup mid a saucer, placed them on the 
sugar, poured out the tea, and allowed it to cc .r 
drank it. ' All these actions he performed wifb 
instigation than the signs or verbal orders 
often of his own accord. Far from doing e.n ".ctie* ^ 
o’.e, he even appi'oached company with circunU .;J 
'resented himself as if he wished to be caressc • 
who, about the close ot_ the 
Doctor Tyson, , . 
century, gave a very exact description ^ot 
outang, thpii exliibited ' ' 
the metropolis, jfgh 
many of Lfs actions, it seemed to display 
of sagacit}', and was the most gentle and aftec * jj|ipl’ri;ii'j 
imaginable. Those whom it had known 
embraced with the greatest tenderness, j 
and clapping its liaiids around them ; and 
monkies h.ad been embarked, still it 
during the passage to England, it would nevc 
them, and, as if nothing akin to them, 
liicir company. 
