102 APES AND MONKEYS 



by which nations claim the right of territory. Nations 

 often violate this right, and so do chimpanzees, when not 

 held in check by something more potent than a mere 

 abstract sense of justice. With all due respect. I do not 

 think the ape so much abuses the right by urging his claim 

 beyond his real needs as nations sometimes do. 



When a member of a family of apes is ill, the others are 

 quite conscious of the fact and evince a certain amount of 

 solicitude. Their conduct indicates that they have, in a 

 small degree, the passion of sympathy, but the emotion is 

 feeble and wavering. So far as I know, they do not essay 

 any treatment, except to soothe and comfort the sufferer. 

 They surely have some definite idea of what death is, and 

 I have sometimes had reason to believe that they have a 

 name for it. They do not readily abandon their sick, but 

 when one of them is unable to travel with the band the 

 others rove about for days, keeping within call of it ; but 

 they do not minister to its wants. It is said that if one of 

 them is wounded the others will rescue it if possible and 

 convey it to a place of safety. I cannot vouch for this, as 

 such an incident has never come within my own experience. 



One of the most remarkable of all the social habits of 

 the chimpanzee is the kanjo, as it is called in the native 

 tongue. The word does not mean "dance" in the sense 

 of saltatory gyrations, but it implies more the idea of " car- 

 nival."' It is believed that more than one family take 

 part in these festivities. Here and there in the jungle is 

 found a small spot of sonorous earth. It is irregular in 

 shape and about two feet across. The surface is of clay 

 and is artificial. The clay is superimposed upon a kind of 



