76 WILD LIFE UNDER THE EQUATOR. 
Now and then I could see the foot-prints of gorillas 
that had wandered like myself through the woods, but 
these foot-prints were several days old. I came to a 
place where the pine-apple plants were abundant, and 
where the gorillas had evidently feasted on the leaves, 
for thousands of them had been plucked out and only 
the white part eaten. Here and there a young pine-ap- 
FOOT-PRINTS OF THE GORILLA. 
ple had been partly eaten away by these hairy men of 
Hanno, one or two bites taken and the fruit then thrown. 
aside. 
I had to be very careful in walking for fear of mak- 
ing a noise, for the forest not being dense, gorillas could 
have seen me at a long distance. The tondo fruit was 
also abundant throughout the wood. 
