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with these creatures on an island off the west coast of Africa, he proceeds to say :—* There 
were many more females than males, all equally covered with hair on all parts of the 
body. The interpreters called them GorrtLLAs. On pursuing them we could not succeed 
in taking a sinele male; they all escaped with astonishing swiftness, and threw stones 
at us; but we took three females, who defended themselves with so much violence that 
we were obliged to kill them, but we brought their skins stuffed with straw to Carthage.” 
It is evident that Hanno (or Annon, as his name is sometimes given) considered these 
GORILLA.—Troglocyles Gorilla. 
Gorillas to be the veritable savage human inhabitants of the island; perhaps rather more 
savage and powerful than ordinary, and rather less given to clothing; which latter 
deficiency, however, was supplied by the natural covering of hair. 
Imperfect as is his description, yet it is of much interest, as it proves the existence 
of extraordinarily huge apes hitherto unknown even to the Carthaginians, the stuffed skins 
being visible tests. 
For two thousand years nothing was heard of the Gorilla except certain floating 
rumours of satyr-haunted woods, and of wild men who used to make their appearance at 
