NOTES ON AFJNCAN MONKEl'S 



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went with us, again riding on a porter's 

 load. I remember that wc had made 

 a very long march when wo slopped foi- 

 lunch, and the porter put hov down, 

 stuck a spear in the ground near our 

 table and tied her to it. I can just 

 see how she sat beside this spear and 

 put her arm around it, almost falling 

 over from fatigue and sleepiness, but 

 squealing and trying to eat a piece of 

 bread as she squealed and nodded. 



It was after this that we decided to 

 get a little black boy to take care of 

 lier. So Allie became her bodyguard. 

 She rode from camp to camp on his 

 shoulder or up on top of his head, and 

 he always fed her. When we found 

 that the sun and wind affected her eyes 

 and made her sick on the long marclies 

 (for she was used to life in the shadow 

 of green trees), Ave got an umbrella for 

 her. Allie would carry the umbrella 

 over her head — or she would sit on his 

 head and help carry the um])rella her- 

 self. 



When we went on to the Uasin Gishu 

 Plateau, J. T. traveled with us by 

 train. The Indian station masters, 

 when a train pulls in, have the habit 

 of following along the running board 

 at the side of the train and looking in 

 at the windows. One morning when 

 one of these station masters stuck his 

 head over the blind into our compart- 

 ment, J. T., who was awake, resented 

 the intrusion and promptly slapped his 

 face. Her movements were always like 

 lightning and the man was taken com- 

 pletely by surprise. He demanded her 

 ticket. We laughingly referred him to 

 the station master at jSTairobi, and he 

 must have written to him for when we 

 came back to Uganda we were asked 

 to buy a ticket for her or to put her in 

 the baggage car. We observed, however, 

 that he was careful not to put his head 

 over the blind of our compartment. 



J. T. went with us to Uganda and 

 followed the elephants with us. She 

 went to the top of Mount Elgon and 

 ^NFount Kenia. She suffered from tlir- 



cold at high altitudes and on Mount 

 Kenia got mountain sickness and we 

 had to send her back. 



As a rule the black boy, with J. T. 

 on his shoulder, followed after us. 

 That is how it happened that in 

 Ugaiuhi the elephants nearly got her. 

 Allie heard the shooting and came up 

 on the wrong side; the elephant hap- 

 pened to be one which had already 

 charged us twice. The third time he 

 came rushing on with a great branch 

 in his trunk, but instead of charging 

 straight at us, he wont off to one side, 

 and Mr. Akeley killed him just be- 

 fore he reached Allie and J. T. jMr. 

 iVkeley did not know they were in dan- 

 ger until ho wont over to the elephant 

 after killing it and found the boy and 

 the monkey fallen into a clump of grass 

 and bushes from fright. J. T. did not 

 like the forest life. Along the banks 

 of the Tana Eiver where she lived, the 

 tree growth is never dense forest but 

 merely open scrub. 



We took her with us also across the 

 Budango Forest and there she was very 

 much frightened by the chimpanzees. 

 We wanted to study these chimpanzees 

 and get photographs of them, so treed 

 two or three troops. But -the big crea- 

 tures broke huge branches from the 

 trees and thrust them at us, all the 

 while screaming horribly. "Baldy's" 

 roar and scream in the monkey house 

 at the Zoological Park in ISTew York 

 had not seemed one half so terrifying 

 as was this screaming of the wild chim- 

 panzees in the forest. 



By this time J. T. had become an 

 experienced traveler. She had dropped 

 into our ways without any training. 

 We never punished her and in fact 

 never tried in any way to train her, 

 l)eing interested to see what she would 

 do by just being with us. She learned 

 things quickly and remembered. She 

 learned most quickly about the things 

 she liked best. She liked to take a bath, 

 for instance. Judging from her great 

 foudness for water I think the troops of 



