1 88 THE SPEECH OF MONKEYS. 



satisfaction, some ten or twelve sounds or pho- 

 netic elements of the speech used by those peo- 

 ple ; but not knowing the meaning of the sounds 

 in that lost tongue, I did not attempt to verify 

 them. When I find the time to devote to them, 

 I believe I can accomplish that. 



It is a part of my purpose in my trip to Africa 

 to try to secure photographs of the mouths of 

 the great apes while they are in the act of talk- 

 ing, and to this end I am having constructed an 

 electric trigger with which to operate my photo- 

 camera at long range ; and I shall try to furnish 

 to the eminent author of " Visible Speech" some 

 new and novel subjects for study. 



