92 THE SPEECH OF MONKEYS. 



just from their home in the east of Asia. There 

 were seven of these new monkeys, three adult 

 females and four babies, one of whom was left 

 an orphan by the death of its mother in her pas- 

 sage across the ocean. At my request the super- 

 intendent had these monkeys stored in the vacant 

 room in the upper story of the old armory build- 

 ing. They had never seen the monkeys in Cen- 

 tral Park, nor had they ever been brought near 

 enough to the monkey-house for them to learn 

 by any means that any other monkeys were 

 there. About sunrise I repaired to this room, 

 where I had my phonograph placed in order, and 

 I enjoined those who were present by special 

 permission not to do anything to attract the at- 

 tention of the monkeys, nor under any condition to 

 show them any food or anything to drink. Hav- 

 ing arranged my phonograph, I delivered to 

 them the sounds contained on my cylinder which 

 I had recorded on the day preceding. Up to 

 this time not a sound had been uttered by any 

 inmate of the shipping-cage. The instant my 

 phonograph began to reproduce the record, the 

 seven new monkeys began to answer vociferously. 

 After having delivered this record to them, I 

 gave them time to become quiet again. I showed 



