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“ There were also those curious siowgoers, yot marvellously 
wide — awake little auimals the Chameleons, bat not" amongst 
the dead leaves as I found them in the Cape, but crawling up 
the grasses and bushes. This I am told, is not its favourite 
haunt, but on the Bamboos, where it is more active and at 
home than elsewhere. They are very tame and will pursue 
their prey in a window just as well as in the bush. The 
. eye is on the ball and socket principle, and the creature has 
the power of turning one completely round while the other is 
stationary. This power is of the greatest use to it in catching 
its prey. When lying apparently asleep, from its utter quie- 
tude of manner, if closely examined, one. eye will be found 
turned a little behind the other, and the small pupils scanning 
every point before and behind. Should any fly or other insect 
come within its range of vision, it quietly collects itself into 
marching order, but so stealthily the movement is almost 
imperceptible, and when within what it conceives to be an 
accurate range, out shoots the long tongue, and it is not often 
it misses. If it does, it at once drops into quiescence and 
waits patiently its next chance. The Chameleon is very harm- 
less, but can be excited to anger by rubbing on the back when 
it will open its month, a great yellow cavern, and puff itself 
out with a hissing sound, but I never saw it attempt to bite. 
It changes its colours according to the substance it is on, and 
when angry becomes very dark. At night it is perfectly white, 
and it then curls itself up and sleeps till the first streak of 
light wakes it to hunt for prey. Its foot consists of two pre- 
hensile toes without any claws, and its movement is peculiar 
as it often makes several attempts beforo it puts the foot 
down, a precautionary measure to secure a firm foothold 
I presume. 
After considerable mounting I came to a sort of plateau 
where was a clean looking hut, and behiud is rose a giant 
granite cliff, (shewing a straight inaccessible face, utterly 
precluding my further progress. I saw a woman and some 
children, and a little boy brought me out a bench aud placed 
it under a bread fruit tree; mv hot and wearied look I sup- 
pose touching the woman’s kindly nature, aud I was but too 
