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THE LARGER MONKEYS 
fed them in health and disease, and has besides that 
form of insight into animal character which seems 
innate in some persons to a very high and exceptional 
degree, deserve some attention. Eustace Jungbluth, 
a German of Bremen, is the chief keeper of the 
Monkey Palace — tall, handsome, fair, with the 
figure of an athlete, and the sound sense of one who 
prefers to observe and think, than to think and make 
observation square with theory. He also speaks 
English, French, and Dutch well, and expresses him- 
self with great clearness. So far as the present writer 
has been able to gather his views in conversation, he 
absolutely disbelieves in any form of universal 
monkey-speech, though each species has its own 
special sounds of fear or pleasure, which are naturally 
interpreted aright by others of the same kind. The 
Capuchin monkeys remain good-tempered always, 
as do many of the smaller species. But as a rule 
monkey-temper fails after the animals have been for 
four or five years in the Gardens, and they become 
uncertain and often unsafe. An ounce of fact is 
worth a pound of theory. A large monkey escaped 
in the evening when it was being transferred to another 
cage. It dodged the net, and was outside and had 
disappeared almost in a moment. It could not be 
found, and spent the night out. Next morning it 
was discovered in a tree, and shot before the Gardens 
opened. It had been sent to the Zoo because it was 
“ troublesome,” and it was not considered safe to 
leave it at large even for a morning. 
