The Wreck of the South Pole and Other Strange Tales — page 49: what you’re looking at

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42 The Wreck of the South Pole. not say that I have much hope of bringing it down, yet I expect to exert some influence over it, and you may be interested in noting the effect.” We then remained silent, and I kept pretty close watch upon the animal. Soon its chatter grew less and it became more quiet in its movements. “That,” said my host “is the first step in monkey hyp- notism—to get it to stop talking. And I might observe it is the same in affecting the human mind. The first step with a chatterbox is to get it to stop its chatter. Just what connection there is between this and the intellect you may figure out yourself. But the conclusion is quite evi- dent. Mesmerism works on the brain and you must get the brain to work on first.” Again he lapsed into silence and I watched the monkey. Its chatter ceased entirely and it became motionless. But at this stage the other monkeys to whom it had been talk- ing noticed the change and gathered around it. At first they had paid no attention to its silence ; for even a monkey does not talk all the time. But when it ceased talking entirely they knew something was wrong, and being aware, of course, of our presence, suspected that one of us was working upon their companion. At first they chat- tered to him and, gaining no answer, at length fell upon him tooth and nail and gave him such a pulling as no monkey could stand and not resist. He resisted. He fought. His friends made it a running fight, and in this way our victim was drawn away. My host’s mind could have worked at any distance, he explained to me, and at Gomicbooks / (E(@)