268 APES AND MONKEYS 



hundred years, and the history of their language is fairly 

 well known. 



The name enjocko, given by Battel to another ape, is 

 beyond a doubt a corruption of the native name ntyigo 

 (ntcheego),. and this name belongs north of the Congo from 

 Mayumba to Gaboon. He may have inferred that these 

 apes occupied Angola, but there is not a vestige of proof 

 that any ape exists in that part of Africa. Even the 

 native tribes of that part have no indigenous name for 

 either of these apes. Other parts of his account are erro- 

 neous, and while he may have believed that these apes 

 u go in bodies to kill many natives that travel in the wood," 

 and the natives may have told him such a thing, the apes 

 do not practice such a habit. With all their sagacity, 

 they have no idea of unity of action. If a band of 

 them were attacked, they would no doubt act together in 

 defense, but it is not to be believed that they ever pre- 

 concert any plan of attack. Neither do these apes ever 

 assault an elephant. He is the one animal the}- hold in 

 mortal dread. I have incidentally mentioned elsewhere the 

 conduct of my two kulus on board the ship when the}- saw 

 a young elephant. Chico, the big ape that has also been 

 mentioned, Avas often vicious and stubborn. Whenever he 

 refused to obey his keeper or became violent, an elephant 

 was brought in sight of his cage. On seeing it he became 

 as meek as a lamb and showed every sign of the most 

 intense fear. Mr. Bailey himself told me of the dread 

 both of his apes had of an elephant. Battel was also 

 wrong in the mode he described of the mother carrying 

 her young, and that of the apes in using sticks and clubs. 



