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living animal ; and he died at a season when I 
could neither attend a dissection of his body, nor 
with propriety request my medical friends to per- 
form such an operation — in the heat of August ; 
but I opened his jaw, and counted only two incisors 
above, and as many below, which might have been 
a defect in the individual ; and it is mentioned 
simply as a fact, without any intention to censure 
the generic arrangement of Linnaeus. 
“ II. In his manners he was for the most part 
gentle, except in the cold season, when his temper 
seemed wholly changed; and his Creator, who made 
him so sensible of cold, to which he must often 
have been exposed even in his native forests, gave 
him, probably for that reason, his thick fur, which 
we rarely see on animals in these tropical climates. 
To me, who not only constantly fed him, but bathed 
him twice a week in water accommodated to the 
seasons, and whom he clearly distinguished from 
others, he was at all times grateful ; but when I 
disturbed him in winter, he was usually indignant, 
and seemed to reproach me with the uneasiness 
which he felt, though no possible precautions had 
been omitted to keep him in a proper degree of 
warmth. At all times he was pleased with being 
stroked on the head and throat, and frequently suf- 
fered me to touch his extremely sharp teeth : but 
at all times his temper was quick ; and when he 
was unseasonably disturbed, he expressed a little 
resentment by an obscure murmur, like that of 
a squirrel, or a greater degree of displeasure by a 
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