thrown, and became so fond of the exercise, that he was obliged to be shut up whenever the pigs were at liberty. Confinement was the worst punishment he could receive, and whenever threatened with that or any other, he would cling to me for protection. At night, when about to be sent to bed in an empty hen-coop, he generally hid himself under my shawl, and at last never suffered any one but myself to put him to rest. He was particularly jealous of the other monkeys, who were all smaller than himself, and put two of them out of his way. The first feat of the kind was performed in my presence; he began by holding out his paw, and making a squeaking noise, which the other evidently considered as an invitation; the poor little thing crouched to him most humbly, but Jack seized him by the neck, hopped off to the side of the vessel, and threw him into the sea. We cast out a rope immediately, but the monkey was too much frightened to cling to it, and we were going too fast to save him by any other means. Of course Jack was flogged and scolded, at which he was very penitent; but the

deceitful rogue at the end of three days sent another victim to the same destiny. But his spite against his own race was manifested at another time in a very original way. The men had been painting the ship's side with a streak of white, and upon being called to dinner left their brushes and paint upon deck. Unknown to Jack I was seated behind the companion door, and saw the whole transaction; he called a little black monkey to him, who like the others immediately crouched to his superior, when he seized him by the nape of the neck with one paw, took the brush dripping with paint with the other, and covered him with white from head to foot. Both the man at the helm and myself burst into a laugh, upon which Jack dropped his victim and scampered up the rigging. The unhappy little beast began to lick himself, but I called the steward, who washed him so well in turpentine that injury was prevented; but during our bustle Jack was peering with his black nose through the bars of the main-top evidently enjoying the confusion. For three days he persisted in remaining aloft: no one could catch him,

he darted with such rapidity from rope to rope; at length, impelled by hunger, he dropped unexpectedly from some height on my knees, as if for refuge, and I could not deliver him up for punish

ment.

"The only way I could control his tricks was by showing him the panther on board, which excited his fears very strongly. I used to hold him up by his tail, and the instant he saw the panther he would become perfectly stiff, shut his eyes, and pretend to be dead. When I moved away he would relax his limbs, and open one eye very cautiously; but if he caught a glimpse of the panther cage, the eyes were very quickly closed, and he resumed the rigidity of death. After four months' sojourn together, I quitted Jack off the Scilly Islands, and understood that I was very much regretted: he unceasingly watched for me in the morning, and searched for me in every direction, even venturing into the cabin, nor was he reconciled to my departure when my servants left the vessel at Gravesend."

There is a pretty specimen of the Diana monkey

(Cercopithecus Diana) in the Zoological Gardens. It was so called by Linnæus from the half-moon shaped bar of white hair on the forehead, which bears a resemblance to the crescent of the goddess Diana. In colour they are mostly black, the tips of the hair white; the face is triangular and with the eyes intensely black. The sides of the face are ornamented with broad tufts of white hairs, which terminate on the chin in a thin flat beard to two or three inches in length; the breast is also white, the under part of the body yellowish orange, and on the ridge of the back is a broad band of dark reddish brown; altogether in colour and appearance it is varied and elegant. In length it is about eighteen inches, the tail about two feet.

"The Diana monkey," says Mr. Bennett, "is one of the most graceful and good-tempered of its tribe. It is fond of being caressed, and nods and grins with peculiar expression when pleased; but, after a certain age, it becomes more sedate, and seldom indulges in these antics." Another specimen in the gardens, the Mona monkey (C. Mona), is quite as beautiful in its markings, and perhaps

more elegant in its form than the Diana. The top of its head is greenish yellow, slightly tinged with black. The neck, back, and sides, are of a rich chestnut brown, which gradually fades into a slate-colour on the limbs and tail. This tail is considerably longer than the body, and has two very singular white spots near the base. The upper part of the face is purple, the lips and chin, where there is no hair, are flesh-coloured. On the sides of the face are large bushy whiskers of a pale straw-colour, mixed with a few black rings. Above the eye-brows is a transverse black band, surmounted by a narrow crescent-shaped stripe of grey. M. F. Cuvier gives a very flattering account of one of this species, which was for a long time in the Paris menagerie; but this one is far from being so amiable in its manner as the specimen he describes.

Some of the American monkeys are nearly as large as those of the Old World, but are less tractable. The howling monkey is remarkably wild and ferocious, and has the power, from the peculiar structure of its throat, of uttering fearful cries. "They