He wished to accustom Master Knips to carry a pannier, and to climb the cocoa-nut trees with it on his back; Jack and he wove a small light pannier of rushes, and fixed it firmly on his back with three straps.
This was intolerable to him at first; he ground his teeth, rolled on the ground, and leaped about in a frantic manner, trying in vain to release himself.

They left the pannier on his back night and day, and only allowed him to eat what he had previously put into it.

After a little time, he became so accustomed to it, that he rebelled if they wished to remove it, and threw into it everything they gave him to hold.

He was very useful to us, but he obeyed only Ernest, who had very properly taught him equally to love and fear him.
Jack was not so successful with his jackal; for, though he gave him the name of _"The Hunter,"_ yet, for the first six months, the carnivorous animal chased only for himself, and, if he brought anything to his master, it was only the skin of the animal he had just devoured; but I charged him not to despair, and he continued zealously his instructions.
During this time I had perfected my candle manufacture; by means of mixing the bees' wax with that obtained from the candle-berry, and by using cane moulds, which Jack first suggested to me, I succeeded in giving my candles the roundness and polish of those of Europe.

The wicks were for some time an obstacle.