A GREAT GORILLA. nh 
After I had followed the woods along the sea-shore 
for a while I suddenly came to a place where a large 
male gorilla had been: the foot-prints were of enor- 
mous size and he must have been a monstrous fellow. 
This place was not further than three feet from the 
beach, and I could distinctly see by the foot-prints of 
the monster that it had been on all-fours and suddenly 
had raised itself to an erect posture; while the bending 
of a branch about eight or nine feet high, just above the 
marks, showed that the animal had supported himself by 
it. By the position of the heels I knew that the mon- 
ster had been looking at the sea. 
Yes, he had been looking, probably in great wonder, 
at the broad expanse of water before him: he had seen 
the waves as they came in white billows breaking them- 
selves on the beach; as far as his deep-sunken gray 
eyes could reach they had seen nothing but the ocean: 
perhaps he had also been looking at the sun as it disap; 
peared below the horizon. | 
I could but wonder what the thoughts of that great 
ape might have been! , 
“Yes,” said I to myself, ‘this must be the country 
where Hanno the Carthaginian came.” And fora while I 
thought of those men of old whose history we learn at 
school or college. 
They have gone, but they have left their mark behind 
them, and will continue to be remembered for a long 
time. ThenI put my feet inside of the foot-prints of the 
gorilla—how small they did look when compared with 
those of the huge creature !—and for a while I stood ex- 
actly on the same spot where he had stood. I do not 
know why, but I felt a kind of satisfaction in doing so; 
