59

CHAPTER VII.

Interpretation of Words--Specific Words and Signs--The Negative
Sign and Sounds--Affirmative Expressions--Possible Origin of
Negative and Positive Signs
69

CHAPTER VIII.

Meeting with Nellie--Nellie was my Guest--Her Speech and
Manners--The little Blind Girl--One of Nellie's Friends--Her
Sight and Hearing--Her Toys, and how she Played with Them
83

CHAPTER IX.

Nellie's Affections--A little Flirtation--Some of my Personal
Friends
97

CHAPTER X.

The Capuchin Vocabulary--What I have Found--What I Foresee in it
105

CHAPTER XI.

The Word for Food in the Rhesus Dialect--The Rhesus Sound of
Alarm--The Dialect of the White-face--Dolly Varden, "Uncle
Rhemus," and others
111

CHAPTER XII.

Atelles or Spider Monkeys--The Common Macaque--Java Monkeys, and
what they say--A Happy Family
121

CHAPTER XIII.

The Extent of my Experiments--Apes and Baboons--Miscellaneous
Records of Sound--The Vocal Index
131

CHAPTER XIV.

Monkeys and the Mirror--Some of their Antics--Baby Macaque and
her Papa--Some other Monkeys
138

CHAPTER XV.

Man and Ape--Their Physical Relations--Their Mental
Relations--Evolution was the Means--Who was the Progenitor of
the Ape?--The Scale of Life
146

CHAPTER XVI.

The Faculty of Thought--Emotion and Thought--Instinct and
Reason--Monkeys Reason--Some Examples
156

CHAPTER XVII.

Speech Defined--The True Nature of Speech--The Use of
Speech--The Limitations of Speech
169

CHAPTER XVIII.

The Motives of Speech--Expression--The Beginning of Human
Speech--The Present Cond