[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.