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pendence to be placed in its shooting. By great 

 luck I hit him with my second rifle, breaking his 

 arm ; and with ray fourth shot partially disabled 

 the female, who was lagging in the rear. 



I reloaded the breech-loader as soon as possible, 

 fully expecting the brute to turn on me when he 

 found himself wounded, but mth a yell much 

 more expressive of fear than anger, he shuffled 

 over the ground even quicker than before, and 

 entering another belt of forest, I lost sight of 

 him. 



As soon as I could collect my people I gave 

 chase, and finding gouts of blood here and there, 

 I was following up the trail, when all at once I 

 heard a loud cry from Tom Dick behind me, and 

 looking round there was a young gorilla scram- 

 bling away over the plain on all fours, and to my 

 joy he hid in a low isolated bush. I immediately 

 surrounded it with my people, all of whom yelled 

 loudly, so as to keep up its terror and evident con- 

 fusion, and to my intense satisfaction we managed 

 to catch it, Fortuna, Tom Dick, and N'adoma, 

 carrying it along by its arms and legs. Whilst I 



