340 THE ODYSSEY OF AN ANIMAL COLLECTOR 
thrice daily, the mug was transferred rapidly from hands to feet 
and back, according to whichever were free at different stages of 
the performance. 
When it was time for me to leave, I took Cholmondley to one 
side while the boys put his kennel on the lorry. He loved traveling 
and needed no prompting to climb on the tailboard of the lorry 
and meekly enter his compartment, where he was safely locked 
out of range of the boys traveling with me. 
The natives of Mamfe, as of Ayang, were of little help as far as 
my collecting was concerned, and as I had gathered sufficient of 
the things that I was able to trap myself, I thought it time to get 
back nearer the coast, especially as there seemed a remote possi- 
bility that a way could be found to send me the young gorilla from 
Spanish Guinea. 
I had obtained permission to occupy a vacant manager’s house 
on a rubber estate on the Mungo River, which divides British and 
French territory, about nine miles south of Kumba. 
To make this journey of about one hundred and twenty miles 
by road, I decided to travel at night for the comfort of the birds. 
Thus the heat of the day was avoided and the problem of feed- 
ing en route overcome. Driving slowly for steadiness, we reached 
our destination at daybreak. 
Some interesting mammals came into my hands here, the most 
noteworthy being two Martin’s White-nosed Monkeys, a Pogonias 
Monkey and a Preuss’s Monkey. The three former were babies 
and had to be reared on powdered milk. 
A different proposition was a Long-tailed Pangolin or Scaly 
Ant-eater. This curious armor-plated creature rolls itself into a 
ball like a hedgehog for protection and hooks the tip of its pre- 
hensile tail under one of the scales as a sort of locking device. 
In this position it is safe from all enemies, even those with power- 
ful teeth. The pangolin is toothless and has a long pointed muzzle, 
small mouth, and long extensile viscous tongue, closely resembling 
the Tamandua Ant-eater of South America in these adaptations 
to a specialized life. 
The Long-tailed Pangolin is arboreal and appears to live almost 
exclusively on a species of black ant that attaches its honeycombed 
nest to branches. Unlike the Tamandua Ant-eater, which is play- 
