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ten, but these words that are written are not.” Then tak- 
ing from my chest my journal, I read it to them, and then 
said— When I am dead, and you and your children are — 
dead, and for ever so long afterward, that journal, if it is 
not lost, will be read in the same manner as I read it to you 
to-day, and the people will understand the meaning of it 
then as you do to-day, and will know what I did, though 
thousands of rainy and dry seasons may pass away. 
“So Hanno the Carthaginian,” I continued, “ was the 
head-man of all these ships, and left Carthage with sixty 
vessels. In that time the ships were unlike those you 
see now, and thirty thousand men and women are said 
to have sailed with him. Hach’ ship was rowed by 
fifty oarsmen. When we read that book called the 
‘Periplus; or, The Voyage of Hanno,’ we find the fol- 
lowing words in which we now suppose he alludes to the 
gorilla: 
“*On the third day, having sailed from thence, pass- 
ing the streams of fire, we came to a bay called the 
_ Horn of the South.” } 
[That ‘Horn of the South,’” I added, “might be . 
Cape Lopez.”’] 
“In the recess was an island like the first, having a 
lake, and in this there was another island full of wild 
men.’” 
[At this point of my story they looked in each other’s 
faces with amazement. | 
“*But the greater part of them were women with 
hairy bodies, whom the interpreters called Gorillas.’” 
[Here there rose a wild shout of astonishment. ] 
«But pursuing them, we were not able to take the 
men, who all escaped from us by their great agility, being § 
