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ness from this cause in a chimpanzee, Kruger 

 has quite a unique history and has become 

 quite celebrated in consequence. But this 

 recovery is said, even by these authorities, to 

 be entirely due to the marvelous devotion of 

 his keepers who sat up with him at night, 

 and scarcely gave themselves time enough for 

 food and exercise during the illness of this 

 animal. 



Kruger has had a most unique life, even 

 for a chimpanzee who has been captured, and 

 travelled from place to place and finally set- 

 tled down in captivity. Kruger 's first master 

 was a Captain A. Melville Jones, who was 

 stationed at one time over a hundred miles 

 from any other white man, and at this place, 

 Kruger the chimpanzee, was his most faithful 

 and constant companion. For want of some 

 one to speak to, the Captain would talk to 

 him, tell him of various items which inter- 

 ested him, and the chimpanzee would sit on 

 his knee with his arms round his neck, and 

 although he could not give him any advice 

 about the matters of which he told him, he 



