52 THE SPEECH OF MONKEYS. 



with his feelings, and that he was conscious of 

 this fact and desired to inform me of it. 



About a year from that time I became quite 

 intimate with a feeble little monkey which is 

 described elsewhere by the name of Pedro, and 

 of whose speech I made a good record. The 

 sounds of his speech so closely resembled those 

 made by Dago that I was not able to see that 

 they differed in any respect except in loudness. 

 Unfortunately the cylinders containing Dago's 

 record had been broken in shipping, and I was 

 therefore unable to compare the two by analy- 

 sis; but the sounds themselves resembled in a 

 striking degree, and the manner of delivery was 

 not wholly unlike, except that Pedro did not as- 

 sume the same pose nor emphasize them with 

 the same gestures. 



During my stay in New York the past winter 

 I have been frequently entertained by a like 

 speech from little Dodo, who was the Juliet of 

 the simian tribe. She belonged to the same 

 species as the others, but her oratory was of a 

 type far superior to that of any other of its kind 

 that I have ever heard. At almost any hour of 

 the day, at the approach of her keeper, she would 

 stand upright and deliver to him the most touch- 



