260 AJJTHROPOID APES. 



" In any attempt to transport the gorilla, the ques- 

 tion of food is necessarily the most important. We 

 have already offered him rice, bread, milk, etc., such 

 things as may be obtained on board ship, as well as 

 in Europe, but with indifferent success. He has 

 occasionally eaten some bread, and has taken ship's 

 biscuit more readily, and once he ate some rice, 

 but for the most part he does not touch it. His 

 favourite food is a red fruit, very common here, of 

 which he eats the inner kernel ; he is likewise fond 

 of bananas and oranges, and above all, of sugar- 

 cane, which he takes from my hand with evident 

 pleasure, and chews. He will also take a glass of 

 water from my hand, carry it steadily to his mouth, 

 aud drink it up. Only on rare occasions, when he 

 was much excited, I have heard him utter a growl- 

 ing noise ; generally he is quite dumb." This 

 animal died on the voyage to Europe, and its body, 

 preserved in rum by Pansch and Bolau, was used by 

 me in some of the researches of which I have given 

 an account. 



Falkenstein gives an attractive description of the 

 gorilla represented in Figs. 3, 4, during the first 

 months of his captivity : " When this animal reached 

 the station (Chiuxoxo, in Loango) it was our first 

 care to procure all the forest fruits within reach, 

 as well as a she-goat, in order to restore the young 

 anthropoid's failing strength. It can easily be sup- 

 posed that we watched his attempts to eat with 

 great interest, and were very much relieved when 

 he not only readily drank milk, but ate various 

 fruits with evident increase of appetite, and es- 



