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letter (December, 1859) accompanying the bottled specimen first transmitted to this country, we gather 
the following history : — “ The Calabar people call it Angwdntibo — angwdn means a farm, but we do 
not know the etymology of the second part of the word, and cannot say whether it arose from any habit 
peculiar to the animal. It lives in trees ; but, being nocturnal, the people know exceedingly little 
about it. They cannot tell what it eats. A lad whom I asked said that he lived in the house, and it 
lived in the bush, how then could he know anything about it ? My Krumen also recognised it as a 
THE SLOW LOUIS. ( After Tickcll and Alph. Milne-Edicards.) 
•countryman of theirs. They consider the one sent as a young one, and say that in their country it 
grows to the size of a common puss. Probably theirs is a different animal, but I cannot tell. They 
call it Dwan, and say that it lays down the law to the other beasts, forbidding them to eat the young 
fruit when it begins to form on the trees. If the Monkey transgresses, the Divan seizes him, and holds 
him there till lie dies— yea, the Monkey rots in his grasp. They say they are shot together thus. 
If the Monkey gets the shot, the Dwan holds on ; if the Dwitn gets the shot, they fall together. The 
Krumen say that the Dwan eats fruit. This is all we know about it at present ; and their (the 
Krumen) account seems somewhat fabulous.” 
