The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 545, May 5, 1832

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Various. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 545, May 5, 1832

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENTS'S PARK

THE CURFEW BELL

COIN OF EDWARD III

PENDERELL JEWEL

PECUNIARY COMPENSATION FOR PERSONAL INJURIES

THE COSMOPOLITE

THE POETRY OF ANCIENT DAYS

ANECDOTE GALLERY

GEORGE THE FIRST

DEATH OF QUEEN CAROLINE

GEORGE THE SECOND

NOTES OF A READER

THE HUNCHBACK

CHARACTER OF GEORGE THE FOURTH

AN ECLIPSE AT BOOSSA

SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY

POTTERY

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

NON-PROPOSALS, OR DOUBTS RESOLVED

THE WAVERLEY NOVELS

MEN COMPARED WITH BEES

THE GATHERER

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Emu Enclosure

Pelican Enclosure

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Baboons may be rendered docile in confinement; though they almost always retain the disposition to revenge an injury. At the Cape, they are often caught when young, and brought up with milk; perhaps Jerry was so nurtured; and Kolben tells us, that they will become as watchful over their master's property as the most valuable house-dog is in Europe. Many of the Hottentots believe they can speak, but that they avoid doing so lest they should be enslaved, and compelled to work! What a libel upon human nature is conveyed in this trait of savage credulity. The bitterest reproofs of man's wickedness are not only to be found in the varnished lessons of civilization. Here is a touching piece of simplicity upon which James Montgomery might found a whole poem.

Baboons, in their native countries, are sometimes hunted with dogs, but their chase is often fatal to the assailants. Mr. Burchell tells us that several of his dogs were wounded by the bites of baboons, and two or three dogs were thus bitten asunder. A species of baboon common in Ceylon, often attains the height of man. It is very fearless; and Bishop Heber relates that an acquaintance of his having on one occasion shot a young baboon, the mother came boldly up and wrested the gun out of his hand without doing him any injury.

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