'iiil: gorilla. —y'/V^^i/'^'* coniia. 



The Goiui-la is the largest of all the four-luinded animals — those creatures which 

 we know by the more tamilinr names of Apes, Baboons, and :\Ionkeys. They 

 are tenned four-lianded animals because they are furnished wUli four liand-hke 

 extremities, to their limbs, instead of having two hands and two feet as ourselves, or 

 four feet as is the case with the greater portion of the :\Iannn;ili.i. The Apes, of 



