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brin^ them away because they bit and scratched. We were forced to 

 kill them, but we flayed the bodies and sent the skins to Carthage." 

 To this account, Pliny adds that the skins were preserved in the temple 

 of Juno. 



It is clear from the above extract from Hanno's log-book, that he had 

 seen Antliropoid apes, and the name he uses is conveniently applied to 

 the species we are describing. 



The Gorilla, called by the present natives Njina, represents a 

 distinct species. It is shorter but far broader than even a stout 

 man. A full-grown male attains the height of about five feet five 

 inches, and measures from shoulder to shoulder nearly thirty-eight 

 inches. The length and strength of the fore-limbs, the dispropor- 

 tionate size of the hands and feet, and tlic connection by a skin of 

 the middle fingers and toes, arc the most marked characteristics. 



The neck of this animal is so short that its head appears to be buried 

 between its shoulders. The forehead is retreating. The ears are small, 

 and nearly on a line with the eves. The nose is flat, but a little more 

 salient than in the other monkeys. The chest and shoulders are ex- , 

 tremely wide. The abdomen is round and prominent. There is no 

 swell in the upper arm muscles, the lower limbs have no calves ; the 

 hands are massive and thick, and the fingers short and stumpy. The 

 back of the hands is hairy ; the finger-nails are black, thick, and strong. 

 The foot is proportioned like the hand of a giant, and is v/ell adapted for 

 maintaining the body in a vertical {position. The huge body is covered 

 with iron-gray hairs, each ringed with alternate bands of black and gray. 

 On the arms the hair is darker and longer, and sometimes exceeds two 

 inches in length. The head is covered with a crown of short, reddish 

 hair descending to the neck. The hair of the female is black with a red 

 tint, and is not streaked like that of the male ; neither has the female the 

 red-colored crown until she is aged. The young Gorilla is of a jet-black 

 color. The eyes are buried beneath prominent and shaggy eyebrows, an 

 arrangement which gives the face a cruel look. The jaws are enormous, 

 and furnished with large canine teeth. , 



It is not yet ascertained how large a tract of countrv the Gorilla m- 

 habits ; the interior of that part of Africa is not yet thoroughly explored, 

 but we mav safely say that the Gorilla is found between the equator and 

 the fifth degree of north latitude, and that the forests traversed by the 

 rivers Gaboon Moonee and Fernando Vaz form its abode. 



