THE SPEECH OF MONKEYS. II 



to increase, until from a mere sense of compas- 

 sion I desisted. No amount of coaxing would 

 induce him to return to me or to accept any 

 offer of peace which I could make. I retired to 

 a distance of about twenty feet from his cage, 

 and his master induced him to descend from the 

 perch, which he did with the greatest reluctance 

 and suspicion. I gave the sound again from 

 where I stood, and it produced almost the same 

 results as before. The monkey gave out a sin- 

 gular sound in response to my efforts to appease 

 him, but refused to become reconciled. 



After the lapse of eight or ten days I had not 

 been able to reinstate myself in his good graces 

 or to induce him to accept anything whatever 

 from me. At this juncture I resorted to harsher 

 means of bringing him to terms and began to 

 threaten him with a rod. At first he resented 

 this, but soon yielded and came down merely 

 from fear. He would place the side of his head 

 on the floor, put out his tongue, and utter a very 

 plaintive sound having a slight interrogative 

 inflection. At first this act quite defied inter- 

 pretation; but during the same period I was 

 visiting a little monkey called Jack. For stran- 

 gers we were quite good friends, and he allowed 



