s fed on raw yolk of egg, which it
contrived to suck in with its long tongue--not enough, however, to
keep it alive during the voyage.

The chief engineer exhibited a live 'Tarantula,' or bird-catching
spider, who was very safely barred into its box with strips of iron,
as a bite from it is rather worse than that of an English adder.

We showed a Vulturine Parrot and a Kinkajou. The Kinkajou, by the
by, got loose one night, and displayed his natural inclination by
instantly catching a rat, and dancing between decks with it in his
mouth: but was so tame withal, that he let the stewardess stroke
him in passing. The good lady mistook him for a cat; and when she
discovered next morning that she had been handling a 'loose wild
beast,' her horror was as great as her thankfulness for the supposed
escape. In curious contrast to the natural tameness of the Kinkajou
was the natural untameness of a beautiful little Night-Monkey,
belonging to the purser. Its great owl's eyes were instinct with
nothing but abject terror of everybody and everything; and it was a
miracle that ere the voyage was over it did not die of mere fright.
How is it, en passant, that some animals are naturally fearless and
tamable, others not; and that even in the same family? Among the
South American monkeys the Howlers are untamable; the Sapajous less
so; while the Spider Monkeys are instinctively gentle and fond of
man: as may be seen in the case of the very fine Marimonda (Ateles
Beelzebub) now dying, I fear, in the Zoological Gardens at Bristol.

As we got into colder latitudes, we began to lose our pets. The
Ant-eater departed first: then the doctor, who kept his alligator
in a tub on his cabin floor, was awoke by doleful wails, as of a
babe. Being pretty sure that there was not likely to be one on
board, and certainly not in his cabin, he naturally struck a light,
and discovered the alligator, who had never uttered a sound before,
outside his tub on the floor, bewailing bitterly his fate. Whether
he 'wept crocodile tears' besides, the doctor could not discover;
but it was at least clear, that if swans sing before they die,
alligators do so likewise: for the poor thing was dead next
morning.

It was time, after this, to stow the pets warm between decks, and as
near the galley-fires as they could be put. For now, as we neared
the 'roaring forties,' there fell on us a gale from the north-west,
and would n