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inches. Its arms spread out 7 feet and 2 inches. Its 
bare, huge, brawny chest measured 50 inches round; and 
the big toe or thumb of its foot measured nearly 6 inches 
in circumference. Its arm seemed only hke an immense 
bunch of muscle, and its legs and claw-like feet were so 
well fitted for grabbing and holding on that I did not 
wonder that the negroes believed that this animal conceal- 
ed itself in trees, and pulled up with his foot any living 
thing, leopard, ox, or man, that passed beneath. There 
is no doubt that the gorilla could do this, but that he 
does, Ido not believe. They are ferocious and mis- 
chieyous, but not carnivorous. 
Though you see by the description I have given you 
that the animal is large, I have killed others much larger, 
about one of which I will speak to you. 
The face of this gorilla was entirely black. The vast 
chest, which proved his great power, was bare, and cov- 
ered with a parchment-like skin. Its body was covered 
with gray hair, the hair being longer on the arms. 
Though there is much dissimilarity between this ani- 
mal and man, I never kill one without having a sickening 
realization of the horrid human likeness of the beast. 
This was particularly the case to-day when the animal 
approached us in its fierce way, and walking on its hind- 
legs and looking us boldly in the face, seemed to me like 
an incarnate fiend. 
I stuffed and preserved its skin and skeleton, and a 
few years ago many of you saw them in New York or 
Boston. 
I was delighted that we had killed a gorilla. We had 
the greatest trouble in bringing the beast to the camp. 
We had to disembowel him on account of his weight, in 
