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of the gourd bubbled, he dipped it back again and was evi- 

 dently aware that it was not filled. Finally, raising the ves- 

 sel, he turned and offered it to his master, who declined 

 to relieve him of it. We turned to go back into the town, 

 and the ape followed us with the gourd ; but all the way 

 along he continued to mutter a sound of complaint. 



He was next sent into the edge of the forest to brine 

 firewood. He had been gone onlv a few minutes when he 

 returned with a small branch of dead wood which he had 

 picked up from the ground. He was again sent, together 

 with three or four children. When he returned on this 

 occasion he had three sticks in his hand. The man ex- 

 plained to me that when the ape went alone he would 

 never bring but one twig at a time, and this was sometimes 

 not bigger than a lead pencil ; but if the children went with 

 him and brought wood, he would bring as much as he could 

 grasp in one hand. He also told me that the animal would 

 sit down on the ground and lay the sticks across one arm 

 in the same manner as the children did, but he invariably 

 dropped them when he rose up. Then he would seize 

 what he could hold in one hand and bring it along. The 

 man also said that, in carrying a single stick, the ape always 

 used only the hand in which he held it ; but that if he had 

 three or four pieces he always curved his arm inwards, 

 holding the wood against his side, and hobbled along with 

 his feet and the other hand. 



The next thing with which the man entertained me was 

 sending the ape to call some one in the village. He first 

 sent him to bring a certain one of the man's wives. She 

 was several doors away from where we sat. The ape went 



