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the far west. He rounded the Sierra Leone and makes 

 the following report : 



' ' The third day after we had sailed and had passed 

 through the torrid streams, we came to a bay called the 

 Southern Horn. In the background, there was an island 



YOUNG GORILLA OF THE LEIPSIC ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. 



(From the Ittustrirte Zeitung, October 19, 1905 ) 



with a lake and within this lake there was another island 

 on which wild people were living. . The majority of them 

 seemed to be women with hairy bodies, and our inter- 

 preter called them gorillas. We could not catch any of 



