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Level Station, to meet the animal. In due course it 

 arrived, securely fastened up in a crate of portentous 

 size, and was quickly placed upon a truck, and wheeled 

 away out of the draught to a warm room for the night. 

 As soon as it was safely installed, the wrappings were 

 carefully removed from the crate, and we all peered 

 in, to see a frightened little black object hiding away 

 in a corner, and jealously guarded by the chimpanzee. 

 This was the gorilla; not at all the terrible-looking 

 creature that one had been led to expect. But then 

 it was very young quite a baby, in fact, scarcely two 

 years old ; and it had been travelling in a noisy train 

 all day long, and it was very tired, and it was very 

 much dazzled by the light suddenly flashing in upon 

 it from the lanterns. So a little food and drink were 

 put into the cage, and the crate was carefully covered 

 up again, in order to keep out the least suspicion of a 

 draught. And then we all went home again until the 

 morning. 



Next day we were early at the Palace to ascertain 

 whether the little gorilla had suffered from its long 

 journey. There we met the owner of the animal, who 

 at once suggested that if my father would give a short 

 descriptive lecture upon the anthropoid apes two or 

 three times a day it would add greatly to the attrac- 

 tive power of the animal towards the general public. 

 To this proposition my father, after some deliberation, 

 agreed. A few specimens, consisting chiefly of casts of 

 the feet, hands, and heads of adult gorillas, were pro- 

 cured, and between the 21st and 31st of August, 



