8 THE SPEECH OF MONKEYS. 



was very crude and imperfect, it served to con- 

 vince me that my opinions were correct as to the 

 speech of these animals. 



In this case I noticed the defects which oc- 

 curred in my work, and provided against them, 

 as well as I could, for the future. Soon after 

 this I went to Chicago and Cincinnati, where I 

 made a variety of records of the sounds of a 

 great number of monkeys, and among others I 

 secured a splendid record of the two chimpanzees 

 contained in the Cincinnati collection, which I 

 brought home with me for study. The records 

 that I made of various specimens of the simian 

 race I repeated to myself over and over until I 

 became familiar with them and learned to imitate 

 a few of them, mostly by the use of mechanical 

 devices. After having accomplished this, I re- 

 turned to Chicago, and went at once to visit a 

 small Capuchin monkey whose record had been 

 my chief study. Standing near his cage I imi- 

 tated a sound which I had translated " milk ;" but 

 from many tests I concluded it meant "food," 

 which opinion has been somewhat modified by 

 many later experiments that lead me to believe 

 that he uses it in a still wider sense. It is dim- 



