With Flashlight and Rifle ^ 



has been called after its discoverer by Prof. Matschie. 

 Prof, von Hansemann assures me that this species differs 

 in the shape of its skull from the gorillas of the East 

 African coastdands hitherto known. 



Visitors to the German Horn and Antler Exhibition 

 in 1900 will remeniber the colossal gorilla exhibited there, 

 which had been killed in a West African forest. Very 

 probably it did not show the full size attained by these 

 gigantic man-apes, the terror of the primeval forests. 



In early works on Africa we are furnished with many 

 fantastic and highly coloured tales about these apes. It 

 is to a German — von Koppenfels — that we owe much of 

 our knowledge about them, and we should perhaps have 

 been able to learn much more about their habits and 

 ways if he had not died from a wound received from a 

 buffalo. I look forward eagerly to deriving some trust- 

 worthy information concerning them from the traveller 

 Zenker. 



Chimpanzees and gorillas are not to be found in the 

 greater part of German East Africa, nor in the Masai 

 highlands which I traversed. These regions harbour, 

 however, several species of a very interesting, peculiarly 

 shaped ape, very shy and retiring, which lives on high 

 trees in the forests and feeds almost entirely on leaves. 

 These are the guerezas {Colohus) — silky haired, with 

 bushy tails, coloured black and white, and with serious, 

 bearded faces; the finest species of them, the " mbega " 

 of the natives {Colodus caudafus), is to be found in 

 the forests of Kilimanjaro and the Meru Mountains. The 

 mbegas are thumbless, and have a curiously hasty and 



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