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had succeeded in getting the net over the animal and 
then the animal had succeeded in tearing his way out 
of the net and killing the man. Whether this story 
was true or not I do not know. Before I left Africa, 
in I91I, I heard that a man named Grauer had gone 
into the country where I had intended going and 
that he had come out through Nairobi with eight 
gorilla skins. Altogether there came to me consider- 
able corroboration of my belief that there were goril- 
las in the Lake Kivu country of Central Africa, and 
my intention to go there and collect the material for 
a group remained constant although, through the 
period of the war, inactive. 
It came to life in 1920. One night I was expound- 
ing the beauties of Africa to my friend Mr. H. E. 
Bradley when he turned to Mrs. Bradley and said, 
‘“‘Let’s take him at his word and spend a year in 
Africa.”’ Mrs. Bradley asked what they should do 
with their five-year-old daughter. Nothing pleased 
me more than to assure them that an expedition to 
Central Africa was entirely safe and practicable for 
women and children, and so an expedition was agreed 
upon. Years before, when she was a child, I had 
promised the niece of a friend of mine, Miss Martha 
Miller, to take her to Africa. I had never been al- 
lowed to forget the promise. Now the time for ful- 
fillment had come. So the party was formed of these 
two ladies, Bradley, the five-year-old child, Miss Pris- 
cilla Hall,and me. Miss Hall had agreed to look af- 
ter the youngster while the others hunted. Not long 
afterward it was definitely decided that the expedi- 
