LIFE IN CAPTIVITY. 269 



A chimpanzee in Brosse's possession was sick, 

 and twice blooded. When he again fell ill, he held 

 out his arm as if to demand another venesection. 



In reading these accounts, which have gone the 

 round of various old-fashioned books on natural 

 history, the question arises what we are or are not 

 to believe, for many particulars appear to be ex- 

 aggerated. Dr. Hermes, the director of the Berlin 

 Aquarium, disputes the assertion made by others 

 that the female chimpanzee, Molly, which was kept 

 for a long while in that establishment, poured out 

 wine for herself at an evening party, and clinked 

 glasses with a neighbour.* 



There is, however, an account given by Broderip 

 of a male chimpanzee, which was brought from the 

 Gambia, and placed in the London Zoological 

 Gardens in 1835, which appears to be simple and 

 faithful. The creature, clothed in a little jacket, 

 nestled for the most part in the lap of an old female 

 keeper. When he had nothing else to do, he played 

 with his toes, just as a child does under like cir- 

 cumstances. He took Broderip's hand without fear, 

 and touched the ring on one of his fingers with his 

 teeth, but without bending it. He tried all artificial 

 substances with his teeth. He held fast to his 

 keeper's gown when she proposed to leave him, and 

 he played with Broderip like a child. He displayed 

 great terror when an anaconda was brought into the 

 room in a basket, and did not dare to take an apple 

 from off the closed lid of the basket ; but as soon as 



• Verhandlimgen der berliner Anfh/ropologischen Gesellschaft, 

 Maroh 18, 1876, p. 93. 



