WILD ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY 
bottle was given her, she would set to work to untwist 
the wire ; this done, she would get out the cork, if it were 
not too tightly fixed, and then drink the contents of the 
bottle. Her attitude in drinking was something quite 
new. She sat down on her haunches, held the bottle Avith 
both hands, and tilted the end of it itp with her hind foot, 
so that the liquid should flow at the proper level into her 
mouth. In this attitude her appearance Avas most comical, 
and at the same time most interesting. 
The most extraordinary part of “ J enny’s ” performance 
Avas that she smoked a Most monkeys Avill carry a 
pipe in their mouths and pretend to smoke, but this Avas 
the first monkey that we have ever knoAvn actually to 
smoke lighted tobacco out of a j)ipe. 
Our illustration shoAvs ''Jenny’' adorned Avith her silver 
collar and Avar medal, enjoying herself after her day’s Avork. 
Most monkeys aauII drink grog, but "Jenny” AA^as especially 
fond of it, and she ahvays took her glass Avith her pipe, 
Avhich she enjoyed quite as much as Forecastle Jack after 
he had been reefing topsails. Our friend Mr. Buckland 
called to see "Jenny”; the fair Andamanian, devoid of 
shyness, repaid the compliments this gentleman offered 
her, in monkey language, by snatching a half-smoked 
lighted cigar out of his mouth, and did him the honour to 
finish it, throAving aAvay the end Avhen it threatened to 
burn her lips. 
The Andaman natives are said to be the most degraded 
of human beings. If " Jenny ” Avas an average sample 
of the monkeys, Ave Avould sooner be a monkey than a 
man, if nature had cast our lot in the far distant Andaman 
Islands. 
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