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tel, says, that the inhabitants of Angola, when they are in the woods, make fires around the places where they sleep to keep the Oran Otans at a distance, and that these animals will come and sit quietly round the fires till the last of the embers are expired.

Among the woods on the banks of the river Gambia*, we read that the Oran Otans get together in troops of three or four thousand, and that when there is a party sailing along the river, these animals mount the trees to look at them, and sometimes make a loud chattering noise, and shake the trees violently with their hands. They will sometimes come up to any men that they may meet, and grin at them, but if they are attacked, they run away. When one of them is killed, the others carry his body away, and one traveller says, that they cover up the body with branches of trees. These animals are very powerful, and some of them are very savage.

A traveller tells us that when these

* In Africa.

creatures cannot find any fruits upon the mountains, they will come down to the sea coasts, where they feed on various kinds of shell-fish, and particucularly on a large species of oyster which commonly lies open on the shore. Fearful, however, of putting in their paws, lest the oyster should close, and crush them, they put a stone within the shell. This prevents it from closing, and they then drag out their prey, and devour it at leisure.

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gator tells us,

It is said that, if these animals are taken early and well trained, they may be taught to imitate mankind in a very wonderful manner. A French navithat he had two of them which would sit at table, and eat of every kind of food there; that they would use a knife and a fork and a spoon, and that they would drink wine and other liquors. When they wanted any thing, they would beckon to the cabin-boy, and if he did not bring it, they would sometimes catch him in their arms, and throw him down. One of them was ill, and was bled twice in

*M. de la Brosse.

the right arm, and whenever he felt amiss, he would hold out his arm to be bled, as if remembering that it had before done him good.

Another traveller tells us, that he knew a creature of this kind, who made her bed very neatly every day, lay on her side, and covered herself with the clothes, like human being.

The Prince of Orange had a female Oran Otan in his Menagerie in Holland, which was brought from the island of Borneo in the year 1776. This creature seems to have been trained to excellent manners. If the keeper was sitting near to her on the ground, she would very politely take some hay and spread it by her side and invite him to sit down. She would eat strawberries, picking them one by one with a fork, and putting them into her mouth with one hand whilst she carefully held the plate with the other. Her usual drink was water, but she would sometimes take the cork out of a bottle of wine and indulge herself with a glass; after which she would wipe her lips, and if any person gave her a tooth-pick, she would pick her teeth. She would sit

at the tea table, and would bring a cup and saucer, and put in the sugar, and pour out the tea, and let it cool before she drank it. In short, there are many strange tales of this creature ;—but we have had enough for the present.

LESSON FOR A CHILD.

(No. I.)

FROM the first book in the Bible (called the Book of Genesis) we learn that, in the beginning God created the world, and all things that were in it. And God made the sun, and moon, and stars, and trees, and birds, and beasts. Every thing that we see was made by God. The first man and woman which he made were named Adam and Eve, and God put them to live in a garden called the garden of Eden, and made every tree, and every pleasant fruit to grow there for them. And God told them that they might eat of every tree of the garden, but not of the tree of knowledge. And he told them that, if they eat of the fruit

of that tree, they should surely die. But Adam and Eve did not mind the words of the Lord their God; they did eat of the forbidden tree, and they were turned out of the Garden of Eden. And from that time, the earth brought forth thorns and thistles, so that they were obliged to work very hard to get food. And God told them, that, because they had eaten of the tree which he told them they should not eat of, they should one day turn again to dust, as they were made of dust at first.

N. B. The above lesson, and the questions from it are taken from a useful little book, called " A Brief view of Scripture History for Children."

After the lesson has been read, ask the child these questions,

Q. WHO made the world, and all that is in it?

A. God.

Q. Can there be found any thing that was not made by God?

A. No.

Q. Who was the first man whom God made?

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