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ate disposition, and it was never found 
necessary to chain or chastise him. It was 
usual for this bear, the cat, the dog and a 
small blue mountain-lory of Hew Holland to 
mess together and all eat out of the same 
dish. His favourite playfellow was the 
dog, whose teasing and worrying he always 
bore with the utmost playfulness and good- 
humour. As he grew up he became a very 
powerful animal, and in his rambles in the 
garden he would lay hold of the largest 
plantains, the stems of which he could 
hardly embrace, and tear them up by the 
roots.’ 
“ The other Sun-bear, the Bornean, 
greatly resembles the first, except that the 
patch on the breast is of a yellow or orange 
colour and nearly square. The one kept 
in the Tower of London was as sociable 
and amiable in his disposition as the in¬ 
dividual just described; was very fond of 
his keeper and took pains to attract his 
notice and that of the spectators, and, as it 
were, to entertain them by performing 
various antics, such as standing on its hind¬ 
legs, opening its jaws and protruding its 
long and slender tongue, stretching out its 
