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the natives. As the pay of such a policeman is about 
five cents a day, the maintenance of the force is not 
a great matter. 
Besides the road and the police the sanctuary 
would need a few trails and a station to consist of a 
residence for a white director of the sanctuary, living 
quarters for the scientists, enough servants to keep 
the station going, and a simple field laboratory. 
Neither the building nor maintenance for such an 
institution would be expensive in Central Africa. I 
know of no other effort of so moderate a size likely to 
lead to such immediate and valuable scientific results. 
Moreover, if the study of the gorilla is not made in 
some such way as this now, it is not likely that it will 
ever be made at all. If three more gentlemen like 
the Prince of Sweden go into the Mikeno region there 
will be no gorillas left there. Gorillas were origi- 
nally discovered on the west coast and they have been 
reported at various places across Central Africa from 
the west coast to the Mikeno region, but in no region 
are they numerous; and if they should succeed the 
lion and the elephant as the “correct” thing to shoot, 
their extinction would be but a matter of a very few 
years. 
On the other hand, a very few years of study by a 
succession of scientific men from the best institutions 
would unquestionably produce far-reaching results. 
