RAPHIA AND OTHER PALMS, TAMARINDS, AND BAOBABS GREW BV THE RIVER-SIDE. 

 IN THE BACKGROUND OF THIS VIEW MAY BE SEEN A SPUR OF THE INNSHORN 

 GARE MOUNTAINS 



XXVI 

 Apes and Monkeys 



'^r^WO anthropoid apes, the gorilla and the chimpanzee, 

 L formerly known only on the West Coast of Africa, 

 have recently been found also on the western boundaries 

 of the German East African forests. 



Pere Guilleme, who lived for many years on Lake 

 Tanganyika, and who, after seeing all his missionary 

 comrades succumb to the deadly climate, started out 

 again with about twenty "White Fathers," told me, as 

 long ago as 1S99, that the chimpanzee known as 

 " soko " was to be found to the west of Tanganyika on 

 the forest-covered Mzana Mountains at a height of about 

 6,000 feet. 



These caricatures of humanity were met with later on 

 the boundaries of German East Africa, and the German 

 East African gorilla {Gorilla beringei) has lately been 

 found by Captain von Beringe on Lake Kivn, and 



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