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"It is evident that she understands the words seven, eight, 

 nine, and ten, to betoken numbers higher than those below 

 them, and when she was asked for any of these numbers above 

 six, she always gave some number over six and under ten. She 

 sometimes doubled over a straw to make it present two ends, 

 and was supposed to hasten, with the small stock of patience 

 she possessed, the attainment of her task." Dr. Romanes was 

 disposed to think that the uncertainty which attended her 

 dealing with the numbers six and seven was due to her losing 

 patience rather than to her losing count. It was at all events 

 evident that *' Sally " could count accurately up to five. Dr. 

 Romanes tried to teach her colours in the same way, but the 

 result was so uniformly negative that he was disposed to think 

 that she was colour-blind, as she was taught to distinguish be- 

 tween white straws and the straws of any other colour, but she 

 could not be taught to go further. 



In 1875 a female Ape, which received the name of ''Mafuca," 

 was received from the Loango coast at the Dresden Zoological 

 Gardens. *'This," says Dr. Hartmann, "was a wild unmanage- 

 able creature, 120 cm. in height, reminding us in many respects 

 of the Gorilla. The face was prognathous [more so than in A. 

 troglodytes] ; the ears were comparatively small, placed high on 

 the skull, and projecting outwards ; the supra-orbital arch was 

 strongly developed, and the end of the nose was broad, and 

 there were rolls of fat on the cheeks. The creature was, more- 

 over, strongly built, and the region of the hips and the belly 

 was contracted, while the hands and feet were large and 

 powerful. The general physiognomical resemblance between 

 Mafuca and a female Gorilla [whose dead body I had examined] 

 was very great." It was suggested that the creature might be 

 a cross between a Chimpanzee and a Gorilla, as the traveller 



