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less than two years old. He was sullen and morose. 

 He did not resent my approaches, but he did not 

 encourage them. I first spoke to him with the food 

 sound, but he gave no heed. I retired a little 

 distance from him and called him, but he paid no 

 attention. I then used the sound of warning ; he 

 raised his head, and looked in the direction from 

 which the sound came. I repeated it, and he looked 

 at me for a moment and turned his head away. I 

 repeated it again. He looked at me, then looked 

 around as if to see what it meant, and again resumed 

 his attitude of repose. 



On my last voyage to the coast I saw a very good 

 specimen in the Congo. It was a female, a little 

 more than two years old. She was also of a dark 

 complexion, but quite intelligent. She had been 

 captured north of there, and within the limits else- 

 where described. At the time I saw her she was ill 

 and under treatment, but her master, the British 

 consul, told me that when she was well she was 

 bright and sociable. I made no attempt to talk with 

 her, except some time after, having left her, I gave 

 the call sound, which she answered by looking around 

 the corner of the house. I do not know whether she 

 would have come or not, as she was tied and could 

 not have done so had she desired to. 



I have seen a few other specimens of this ape, 

 and most of them appear to be of a somewhat higher 

 order than the ordinary chimpanzee, but there is 

 among them a wide range of intelligence. It would 

 be a risk to say whether the lowest specimen of 



