CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CHIMPANZEE. 27 



der, which appears to come from the spacious cavities of the chest and 

 abdomen rather than from the throat. The cry of the female and of the 

 young is shrill and piercing. 



The Gorilla dies as easily as man; a ball well-directed produce? 

 instant death. 



The female does not attack the hunter ; she flies with her little one, 

 which clings around her neck with its legs encircling her body. The 

 affection of these creatures for their young is so touching, so human, 

 that white men have not the heart to kill them. The natives have no 

 such scruples, and Du Chaillu saw some young Gorillas whose mothers 

 had been slain. He himself had in his possession a young male about 

 two to three years old and two feet and a half high. It was violent, 

 fierce and quite untamable. It repeatedly broke out of its cage ; neither 

 hunger nor other means could conquer its obstinate love of liberty, and 

 when it was at last secured by chains it died suddenly of a broken 

 heart. A young female which was brought to him was a suckling, and 

 died from want of milk. Winwood Reade states that he saw in cap- 

 tivity a young Gorilla and a young Chimpanzee, and that they were 

 equally docile. He heard, too, a report that the Gorilla frequently pur- 

 sued women who went any distance from a village, and saw a woman 

 who affirmed that she had suffered from th6 violence of a Gorilla, and 

 with difficulty escaped. He considers, however, that stories of captured 

 women living with apes in the forests to which they had been dragged, 

 are not deserving of implicit belief. Such stories are common in various 

 places, and have this basis in fact that the larger male apes will undoubt- 

 edly assault women. 



Specimens more or less imperfect exist in the Natural History col- 

 lections at Boston and Philadelphia; no living Gorilla has ever been 

 brought to America, and only one to Europe. The latter unfortunate 

 animal died lately at Berlin from the effects of the climate. 



THE CHIMPANZEE. 



Wallace and others, differing from Owen and Du Chaillu, assign 

 the highest rank among the apes to the Chimpanzee, Troglodytes nigcr, 

 (Plate I.) — Its appearance is certainly not so bestial as that of the 

 Gorilla or the Ourang-outan. The arms arc shorter, the hands and 

 feet are better formed, and it can more easily assume a vertical atti- 



