The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-11-15

When the party returned aboard the
Nsriorie W., Paulvitch was accompa-
Mod by the ape, who seemed anxious
ta follow him. The captain interposed
ra Obstacles to the arrangement, and
80 he great anthropoid was tacitly adj
ufred - membership in the ships
c9. any.
Dnee aboard he examined each new
uinutely, cyincing the same dis
utmcnt in each instance thai had
.od his scrutiny of the others.
officers and scientists aboard Of
t.. Ht~ra~sed the beast, but they We're
.. - account satisfactorily for the
ceremony with which he greet
... h new face. Had he been discov-
.pou the mainland or any other
man the almost unknown island
Nul been his home they would
INCLUDED that he had formerly
"a uct of man, but that theory was
Nd. t.uatle in the face of the isolation
u~uiuhabited island.
rr seemed continually to be search
H. .II ~tfIllt t.lf, anu ihlIIH iH' ~
If the return voyage from the
"a he was oftcn discovered nosing
In various parts of the ship, but
H he had seen and examined each
II the ships company ana eXplor-
rl very corner of the vessel, he lapsed
iltt otter indifference of all about HIM.
Eyln the Russian elected only casual
when hc brought him food. Al
lines the ape appeared merely
'~rate him.
~. hcNer showed affection for him or
tu}une else upon the Marjorie w.
EU did he at any time cyincc any in
Il. H..on of the savage temper That had
H# r.sed his resentment of the attack
ol Tine sailors upon him at the time
tj"t he had come among them.
Most of his time was spent in the
eye Of the ship, scanning the horizon
ahead, as though he were endowed
with sufficient reason to know that the
vessel was bound for some port where
there would be other human beings to
undergo his searching scrutiny. All in
aIt. Ajax, as he had been dubbed, was
considered the most remarkable and in
tefilGent ape that anyone aboard the
Marjorie w. had even seen.
Nor was his intelligence the only re-
uarkable attribute he owned. His
stature and physique were, for an ape,
aWr-in>piring. That he was old vas
q.tte evident, but if his age had i'm
paired his physical or mental powers
in he slightest it was not apparent.
Aud so at length the Marjorie w.
came to England, and there the officers
auI the scientists, filled with compass
~.ou for the pitiful wreck of a nan
they had rescued from the jungles, fur.
uished Paulvitch with funds and bid
him and Ajax G%odspeed.
Upon the dock and a., through thu
Journey to London the Russian had his
hands full with Ajax. Each new face
of the thousands that came within the
~scrutinized, much to the horror of many
of his victims. But at last, failing APP
parently to discover whom he sought,
the great ape relapsed into morbid APP
difference, only occasionally ~eyincing
interest in a passing face.
In London Paulvitch went directly
with his prize to Il famous animal
trainer. This man was much impressed
with Ajax, with the result that he
agreed to train him for Il lion 5 share
Of the profits of exhibiting him and in
the meantime to provide for the keep
of both the ape and his owner.
And so came Ajax to London, and
there was forged another link in the
chain of strange circumstances that
were to affect the lives of many people,
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