DEATH OF AARON AND ELISHEBA 14S 



on Elisheba ; and now he had, himself, passed 

 through the deep shadows of that ordeal. 



What a sad and vast experience for one short 

 year! He had shared with me the toils and dangers 

 of the sea and land over many a weary mile. He 

 seemed to feel that the death of his two friends was 

 a common loss to us ; and if there is any one thing 

 which more than another knits the web of sympathy 

 about two alien hearts, it is the experience of a 

 common grief. 



Thus ended the career of my kulu-kamba friend, 

 the last of my chimpanzee pets. In him were 

 centred many cherished hopes, but they did not 

 perish with him, for I shall some day find another 

 one of his kind in whom I may realise all that I had 

 hoped for in him ; but I cannot expect to find a 

 specimen of superior qualities, for he was certainly 

 one of the jolliest and one of the wisest of his race. 



However fine and intelligent his successor may 

 be, he can never supplant either Moses or Aaron 

 in my affections : for these two little heroes shared 

 with me so many of the sad vicissitudes of time 

 and fortune that I should be an ingrate to forget 

 them or allow the deeds of others to dim the glory 

 of their memory. 



I have all of them preserved, and when I look at 

 them the past comes back to me, and I recall so 

 vividly the scenes in which they played the leading 

 roles — it is like a panorama of their lives. 



