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THE AMEEICAX MUSEUM JOURXAL 



key that was being brought over from 

 South Africa. The passenger who 

 owned him left the boat at Port Said 

 but could not pay the fare for the mon- 

 key, which consequently fell into the 

 hands of the captain. It was just after 

 Patch had been down in the coalhole 

 that J. T. first saw him, Ijut she im- 

 mediately put her arms around him, 

 so the captain said she might have him. 

 After that Patch and J. T. were 

 inseparable. 



That monkeys may be friendly with 

 certain other creatures, as well as de- 

 voted to the companionship of their 

 own kind, J. T. proved to us many 

 times. She had two or three dog 

 friends while she was in Africa. In 



Duniig 31r. Ak<-lf'\ s convalesff-nce from the 

 almost fatal mauling he had suffered from an ele- 

 phant, J. T. was his faithful entertainer. Never 

 before or since has she given such undivided at- 

 tention to amusing one person, and she was a 

 source of great help and cheer throughout the 

 trying weeks 



Uganda a native African dog followed 

 her into camp. One night this dog 

 gave birth to a litter of pups just out- 

 side the tent. Early in the morning 

 J. T. heard the puppies and gave a purr- 

 ing sound while she lifted up the blind 

 of the tent to look out. On seeing her 

 the dog turned over and licked her face 

 and J. T. put out her hand and touched 

 the dog, which then licked J. T.'s hand 

 — and J. T. continued to sit there as if 

 admiring the puppies. We took them 

 out by the camp fire and J. T. went 

 over to them there and softly put her 

 hand on one of them and sat there and 

 watched them. She always tried to kill 

 a little bird or other young thing, but 

 these puppies she did not attempt to 

 hurt. 



She was always greatly interested in 

 the little black babies of the natives. 

 She would ignore the mother and go 

 straight to the baby, and sit down close 

 Ijeside it and look at it. If allowed, 

 she would kiss it, pursing her lips, and 

 opening her mouth and pressing it 

 against the baby's face. 



Of all her playthings and compan- 

 ions, none perhaps proved a source of 

 more constant comfort to her than her 

 mirror. What the workings of her 

 mind were it was diflficult to tell, but 

 her reflection evidently stood to her as 

 that of her own kind and as company. 

 After gazing steadily into the mirror 

 for some time at her own serious eyes, 

 she would look back of the mirror as if 

 searching for the monkey she saw in it. 

 She always slept with her face against 

 her mirror. In addition to this com- 

 panionship, the mirror afforded her un- 

 ending amusement and she was very 

 clever in handling it and turning it 

 slowly back and forth from side to side 

 while she watched the changing reflec- 

 tions in it. 



It was inevitable that her energy and 

 cheer should infect the camp life and 

 make us all very much attached to her. 

 She often indulged in swift rough play 

 and, from the human wav of looking at 



