in the clefts of rocks, or hollow trees.  But if he happened to have met with neither honey nor gum, and his appetite had become sharp by his running about, I always witnessed a very ludicrous scene.  In those cases, he looked for roots, which he ate with great greediness, especially a particular kind, which, to his cost, I also found to be very well tasted and refreshing, and therefore insisted upon sharing with him.  But Kees was no fool.  As soon as he found such a root, and I was not near enough to seize upon my share of it, he devoured it in the greatest haste, keeping his eyes all the while riveted on me.  He accurately measured the distance I had to pass before I could get to him; and I was sure of coming too late.  Sometimes, however, when he had made a mistake in his calculation, and I came upon him sooner than he expected, he endeavoured to hide the root, in which case I compelled him, by a box on the ear, to give me up my share.  But this treatment caused no malice between us; we remained as good friends as ever.  In order to draw these roots out of the ground, he employed a very ingenious method, which afforded me much amusement.  He laid hold of the herbage with his teeth, stemmed his fore feet against the ground, and drew back his head, which gradually pulled out the root.  But if this expedient, for which he employed his whole strength, did not succeed, he laid hold of the leaves as before, as close to the ground as possible, and then threw himself heels over head, which gave such a concussion to the root, that it never failed to come out.

“When Kees happened to tire on the road, he mounted upon the back of one of my dogs, who was so obliging as to carry him whole hours.  One of them, which was larger and stronger than the rest, hit upon a very ingenious artifice, to avoid being pressed into this piece of service.  As soon as Kees leaped upon his back he stood still, and let the train pass, without moving from the spot.  Kees still persisted in his intention, till we were almost out of his sight, when he found himself at length compelled to dismount, upon which both the baboon and dog exerted all their speed to overtake us.  The latter, however, gave him the start, and kept a good look-out after him, that he might not serve him in the same manner again.  In fact, Kees enjoyed a certain authority with all my dogs, for which he perhaps was indebted to the superiority of his instinct.  He could not endure a competitor; if any of the dogs came too near him when he was eating, he gave them a box on the ear, which compelled him immediately to retire to a respectful distance.

“Serpents excepted, there were no animals of whom Kees stood in such great dread as of his own species,—­perhaps owing to a consciousness, that he had lost a portion of his natural capacities.  Sometimes he heard the cry of the other apes among the mountains, and, terrified as he was, he yet answered them.  But if they approached nearer, and he saw any of them, he fled, with a hideous cry, crept between our legs, and trembled over his whole body.  It was very difficult to compose him, and it required some time before he recovered from his fright.