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which he designates the Enjocko, but likewise the gorilla, which he calls 
the pongo. Hence the name Jocko so generally given to individuals of the 
monkey tribe. 
In captivity, chimpanzees, when in health, are gentle, intelligent, and 
affectionate, readily learning to feed themselves with a spoon, or to drink 
out of a glass or cup. Unfortunately, however, their span of life in this 
time in caves and under rocks. Their height is from four to five feet, but 
they are said not to reach this growth until nine or ten years of age. 
That the chimpanzee was known in Europe as far back as 1598 is proved 
by an account brought back from the Congo by a Portuguese sailor, named 
Eduardo- Lopez. In 1613 there appeared the history of the wanderings of 
an English sailor, named Andrew Battel, in the lower part of Guinea, in 
1590, who appears to have heard of or seen, not only the chimpanzee, 
THE CHIMPANZEE AND ITS HABITS. 
