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shares with the Congo Free State the lionour of being the hist refuge of that 

 newly discovered girafi'e-like animal, the okapi. 



It would become wearisome if I continued generalising in this manner. 

 Enough has been said to show that this portion of Africa is singularly 



220. THE ZEBKA 



hl.GOX DIsTlllfT : UltAXX'.S ZEBKA {EQCCS BL'RCUELI-I GR.-l.XTJf) 



interesting and rich in its mammalian fauna. I will now pass to the special 

 description of a few more remarkable, interesting, or beautiful tj'pes. 



The existence of the chimpanzee within the limits of the I'ganda 

 Protectorate was first reported by Emin Pasha, who is said to have sent 

 home a skull from Unyoro. Subsequent travellers, however, denied that 

 this great ape was found there, and it was not very certain that Emin 

 Pasha had not obtained this skull from the forests to the west of the 

 Albert Nyanza instead of to the east of tliat lake. Soon after my arrival 

 in Uganda proper I began to make inquiries from the natives about the 

 existence of this ape. I found at once that it was well known to them 

 by tradition, and that they possessed a name for it in their language, 

 which was " edzike," a word that is obviously allied in origin to the '• nzige " 

 of Bantu races near the West African coast. According to the traditions 

 of the Baganda, the chim])anzee in the times of their forefathers was 

 found in an extensive forest which still exists in the District of Kiagwe, 

 on the borders of Busoga, and quite in the centre of the Uganda Pro- 



