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sound the depth of a river, rejected his food, and actually 
died under the sense of his disgrace. 
The same intelligent creature shall afford us an illustra- 
tion of sympathy, so strong as to overcome even the 
obedience habitual to the animal. Bishop Hcber saw an 
old half-starved elephant fall under his work, and being 
unable to rise, another of very large size was brought to 
assist him. “ I was much struck,” says the good Prelate, 
“ with the almost human expression of surprise, alarm, and 
perplexity in his countenance, when he approached his fallen 
companion. They fastened a chain round his nock and 
the body of the sick beast, and urged him in all ways, by 
encouragement and blows, to drag him up, even thrusting 
spears into his flanks. He pulled stoutly for a minute ; 
but on the first groan his companion gave, he stopped 
short, and turned fiercely round with a loud roar, and 
with his trunk and fore-feet began to attempt to loosen 
the chain from his neck.” 
Dr Abel, in his minute account of the manners of a 
Bornean Orang, speaks of the fits of passionate anger into 
which he would sometimes fall. “ If repeatedly refused 
an orange, when he attempted to take it, he would shriek 
violently, and swing furiously about the ropes; then return 
and endeavour to obtain it : if again refused, he would roll 
for some time like an angry child upon the deck, uttering 
the most piercing screams, and then suddenly starting up, 
rush furiously over the side of the ship, and disappear. 
On first witnessing this act, wo thought he had thrown 
himself into the sea; but, on a search being made, we 
found him concealed under the chains. 
The worthy Doctor says that this act, in a rational 
