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According to Emin Pasha, who was for a 

 number of years Governor of an Egyptian pro- 

 vince on the Upper Nile, and whom Stanley made 

 his last expedition to ' rescue,' chimpanzees some- 

 times make use of fire. He told Stanley that, 

 when a tribe of chimpanzees who resided in a 

 forest near his camp came at night to get fruit 

 from the orchards, they always came bearing 

 torches to light them on their way. ' If I had not 

 seen it with my own eyes,' he declares, ' I never 

 could have believed that these beings have the 

 power of making fire' (9). This same authority 

 relates that on one occasion a band of chimpanzees 

 descended upon his camp and carried off a drum. 

 The marauders went away in great glee, beating 

 the drum as they retreated. He says he heard 

 them several times after that, at night, beating 

 their drum, in the forest. 



The monkeys are little inferior to the man-like 

 races in their intelligence and in the general simi- 

 larity of their feelings and instincts to those of 

 men. Monkeys live in tribes, and at the head of 

 each tribe is an old male chief who has won 

 his place by his strength, courage, and ability. 

 Monkeys have excellent memories and keen ob- 

 servation, and are able to recognise their friends 

 in a crowd even after long absences. They are 

 proverbially imitative, have a strong desire for 

 knowledge, and are exceedingly sensitive and 

 sympathetic in their natures. Sympathy and 

 curiosity, the two most prominent traits in simian 

 psychology, are, significantly, the two most impor- 



