THE CAPTURE OF MOSES 



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friend. Indeed, he seemed glad to be rescued from 

 such a dreary place, even by such a strange creature 

 as a man. 



For a moment the man feared that the cries of 

 his young prisoner might call its mother to the 

 rescue, and possibly a band of others ; but if she 

 heard them, she did not respond, so he tied the baby 

 captive with a thong of bark, put him into his canoe, 

 and 'brought him away to the village, where he 

 supplied him with food, and made him quite cosy. 

 The next day he was sold to a trader. About this 

 time I passed up the river on my way to the jungle 

 in search of the gorilla and other apes. Stopping 

 at the station of the trader, I bought him, and took 

 him along with me. W e soon became the best of 

 friends and constant companions. 



It was supposed that the mother chimpanzee left 

 her babe in the tree while she went off in search of 

 food, and wandered so far away that she lost her 

 bearings and could not again find him. He ap- 

 peared to have been for a long time without food, 

 and may have been crouching there in the forks of 

 that tree for a day or two ; but such was only 

 inferred from his hunger, as there was no way to 

 determine how long he had remained, or even how 

 he got there. 



I designed to bring Moses up in the way that 

 good chimpanzees ought to be brought up, so I 

 began to teach him good manners in the hope that 

 some day he would be a shining light to his race, 

 and aid me in my work among them. To that end 



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