ector, but he has eyes, ears, and fingers
too, that see, hear, and get larvae that, when grown and changed into
beetles, are the valued prizes of entomologists. Into that tunnelled
hole he inserts his long finger, and squash it goes into a large, pulpy,
fat, sweet grub. It takes but a moment to draw it out; and if it be a
pupa near the bark, so much the better for the aye-aye, so much the
worse for the beetle or cossus. I might dilate on this subject, but
prefer referring the reader to Professor Owen's memoir, and to his
lecture.[22] The aye-aye, in every point of its structure, like every
created thing, is full of design. Its curious fingers, especially the
skeleton-like chopstick of a digit referred to, attract especial notice,
from their evident adaptation to the condition of its situation and
existence, as one of the works of an omnipotent and beneficent Creator.

FOOTNOTES:

[6] The Durian, a peculiarly favourite fruit in several of the Eastern
Islands.

[7] Mr Wolf's drawing was taken from a chimpanzee. Mr Waterton's young
chimpanzee was in reality a small-eared gorilla. The ears of the
chimpanzee are large.

[8] Written in 1861. Skins and skeletons of the gorilla are to be found
now in many museums.

[9] For Jan. 1860, vol. iii., p. 177.

[10] Monkeys are very liable to lung diseases in this climate, and all
menagerie keepers are aware of the bad effects of the winter on these
denizens of a warm climate.

[11] See "Lives of the Lindsays," by Lord Lindsay, vol. iii., pp.
371-476.

[12] At Paradise. She describes some plants, one, evidently a Stapelia,
is a fine large star-plant, yellow and spotted like the skin of a
leopard, over which there grows a crop of glossy brown hair, at once
handsome and horrible; it crawls flat on the ground, and its leaves are
thick and fat (p. 407).

[13] "Conversations of Lord Byron" (p. 9).

[14] _Loc. cit._ (p. 1).

[15] "Works of Professor Wilson," vol. i., p. 73.

[16] Gilpin's "Forest Scenery," edited by Sir T. D. Lauder, vol. i., p.
354.

[17] "View of Society and Manners in Italy," vol. ii., p. 475.

[18] Extracted from the late Mr Cunningham's complete edition; we
neglected to quote the page, and have altered and shortened the words.

[19] "Memoirs of Rev. Sydney Smith," i., p. 377.

[20] "Wit and Wisdom of Rev. Sydney Smith" (it is from a lecture at the
Royal Institution), p. 259.

[21] "Life in the Mission, the Camp, and the Zenana; or, Six Years in
I