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ground with their hands, but they do not, as the 

 gorilla does, beat their breasts with the fist. They 

 generally take to flight at the sight of men, but if 

 driven to extremity, or wounded, they defend them- 

 selves with their hands and teeth. The direct 

 conflict with a full-grown chimpanzee demands, in 

 order to obtain the mastery over him, all the 

 strength and presence of mind of a strong and 

 courageous man. I shall always remember the large 

 female animal at Hamburg, which was able to stand 

 up against a powerful man. Great daring was 

 required to control the fury of Mafuca. The Soko 

 also, which Livingstone found in Manyema, to the 

 west of Lake Tanganyika, bravely defended itself, 

 when attacked. 



The native hunters shoot chimpanzees with fire- 

 arms or arrows, and also kill them with javelins. 

 The Niam-Niam tribe go in hunting-parties of 

 twenty or thirty men, to track the bam in the wood- 

 land galleries so closely interwoven by the liana, and 

 when they have thrown nets over these, they kill 

 the animals with lances. Their flesh is eaten in 

 difierent parts of Africa, and their skulls sometimes 

 serve for fetishes. In a Niam-Niam village, by the 

 stream Diamwonu, Schweinfurth saw the skulls of 

 men, chimpanzees, sea-cat monkeys, baboons, ante- 

 lopes, wild boars, etc., hung on the stump of a tree. 



In the Gaboon district, as we have already said, 

 the chimpanzee is called Nschego, Nschiego, 

 Ndjeko, and the same names serve for the people 

 of Mpongwe, Galloa, Kamma, and Orungu. By 

 the people of Aschira and Malimba the animal is 



