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Title: Apes and monkeys; their life and language
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Garner, Richard Lynch, 1848-1920
Subjects: Monkeys Speech Sound production by animals
Publisher: Boston and London, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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here I halted for a rest. Onentering the open space between two rows of bamboo huts,I saw a group of native children at the opposite end of thespace, and among them was a fine big chimpanzee, sharingin their play. When they discovered the presence of awhite man in the town, they left their sport and came toinspect me. The ape also came, and he showed as muchinterest in the matter as any one else did. I was seated ina native chair in front of the kings hut, and the people, asusual, stood around me at a respectful distance, looking onas if I had been some wild beast captured in the jungle. The ape was aware that I was not a familiar kind ofthing, and he appeared in doubt as to how he shouldact towards me. He sat down on the ground among the l7S 176 APES AND MONKEYS people and stared at me in surprise, from time to timeglancing at those around him as if to ascertain what theythought of me. As they became satisfied with looking theyretired one by one from the scene, until most of them had
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Native Village, Interior of Nyanza(From a Photograph.) gone ; but the ape remained. He changed his place a fewtimes, but only to get a better view. The people wereamused at his manner, but no one molested him. At length I spoke to him in his own language, using thesound which they use for calling one another. He lookedas if he knew what it meant, but made no reply. I repeated THE VILLAGE PET 177 the sound, and he rose up and stood on his feet, as if heintended to come to me. Again I uttered it, and he camea few feet closer, but shied to one side as if to flank myposition and get behind me. He stopped again to look, andI repeated the word, in response to which he came up nearmy right side and began to examine my clothing. Heplucked at my coat sleeve a few times, then at the leg ofmy trousers and at the top of my boot. He was gettingrather familiar for a stranger ; but I felt myself to blamefor having given him the license to do so. For a while hecontinued his investigations, then he de

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