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THE SEMLIKI VALLEY 



mysterious forests the natives assert that there are other strange animals 

 besides, the okapi. A creature which they described as like a pig, only 

 about six feet long and very stoutly built, may be the little forest- 

 haunting Liberian lii[ipo}iotamus. There are also stories of a large 

 antelope, with a few white spots or markings, which has very dis- 



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proportionately ?mall horns in the male. There is a great deal of talk 

 about a huge, man-like ape, but this apparently is nothing more 

 remarkable than the gorilla. The range of the gorilla extends to within 

 a- few days' journey of the Semliki Eiver. and specimens which have been 

 killed by natives and photographed by Belgian otBcers (the photographs 

 were shown to me) are nothing but gorillas, so far as I can judge. The 



