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by something more potent than a sense of justice. 

 With all due respect, I do not think the ape abuses 

 the right by urging his claim beyond his real needs, 

 while nations sometimes do. 



When a member of a family of apes is ill, the 

 others are quite conscious of it, and evince a cer- 

 tain amount of solicitude. Their conduct indicates 

 that they have, in a small degree, the passion of 

 sympathy, but the emotion is feeble and wavering. 

 So far as I know, they do not essay any treatment, 

 except to soothe and comfort the sufferer. They 

 surely have some definite idea of what death is, and 

 I have reason to believe that they have a name for 

 it. They do not readily abandon their sick, but 

 when one of them is unable to travel with the band, 

 the others rove about for some days, within call of 

 it, but do not minister to its wants. 



It is said, if one of them is wounded, the others 

 will rescue it if possible, and convey it to a place of 

 safety ; but I cannot vouch for this, as such an inci- 

 dent has never come within my own experience. 



One of the most remarkable of all the social habits 

 of the chimpanzee, is the kanjo, as it is called in the 

 native tongue. The word does not mean " dance " 

 in the sense of saltatory gyrations, but implies more 

 the idea of "carnival." It is believed that more 

 than one family takes part in these festivities. 



Here and there in the jungle ..k found a small 

 spot of sonorous earth. It is irregular in shape, but 

 is about two feet across. The surface is of clay, and 

 is artificial. It is superimposed upon a kind of peat 



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