INDEX 



297 



Social traits and government 

 of chimpanzee, 99-105 

 of gorilla, 231 ff. 

 Soko, 270 

 Speech defined, 12 

 Speech of animals (see also Mon- 

 keys, Speech of, and Chimpan- 

 zees, Speech of) 

 author's interest in, 12 

 grounds of belief in, 12, 13 

 vocabularies limited, 13 

 can express what they conceive, 



13. 23 

 development of interest, 14 

 Spider-monkey, 38 

 Stanley Pool, 216 

 Steckelman, Carl, African explorer, 



216 

 Sternum (see Skeleton) 

 Stories of travelers and writers often 

 untrue, 71-72, 235-236, 261- 

 263, 267, 268, 273 

 Strohm, Mr. Adolph, trader at 



Gaboon, 154, 158 

 Sumatra, 274 



Threadbare story, A, 262, 273 

 Tornado in the jungle, 79 ff. 

 Translations of native reports, Lit- 

 eral, 269, 270 

 Troglodytes, 267 

 Tyimba (village), 144 



Under forest, The, 68 



University of Toronto Collection, 



249 



Village pet, A 



the children's playmate, 1 7 5-1 78 



Village pet, A (cont.) 



understood names and com- 

 mands, 179 



brought water and wood, 179- 

 180 



brought persons named, 180- 

 1S1 



price double that of a slave, 182 



Vocabularies of animals (see Speech 



of Animals; Monkeys, Speech 



of, and Chimpanzees, Speech 



of) 



Walker, Dr., revises Wilson's lexicon 



of native language, 216 

 Wallace, Mr. Alfred R., authority on 



orang, 275 

 Webber, Mr., keeper of ape at 

 Bellevue 

 his success in training, 198 

 Wild visitors to the cage, 75 ff., 81- 

 82, 186-190, 252-260 

 did not usually evince fear, 253 

 retreated in good order, 253, 



255> 258 

 Moses frightens one away, 254 

 a gorilla beckons, 255 

 a narrow escape, 256-258 

 an exceptional opportunity, 



258-259 

 a brave baby, 260 

 a gorilla takes his own photo- 

 graph, 264-265 

 Wilson, Dr., first missionary at 

 Gaboon 

 wrote lexicon of native lan- 

 guage, 216 

 Wurmb, Baron, 267 



