CHAPTER XI 



ANOTHER EXCURSION — FOOTPRINTS OF GORILLAS (nGI- 

 NAS) — LISTENING TO THE MONSTERS* ROARING 

 — TWO OF THEM CALLING TO EACH OTHER— THEY 

 GRADUALLY DRAW NEAR TO EACH OTHER AND TO 

 US — THEY MEET AND WE SLEEP IN THE FOREST- 

 SUDDEN APPEARANCE OF THE MALE NGINA— KILL- 

 ING OF THE NGINA AND HIS MATE 



WE were up early, and had all slept well. After 

 our breakfast we started, but before doing so 

 we hid our ladder and also an axe as a precaution in 

 case our abode should be discovered and our ladder 

 Stolen. 



Shinshooko and Alapai were to visit the traps to 

 see if any game had been caught. Rogala and I were 

 to reconnoitre and see where the game was to be found. 

 Ndova and Andekko remained in the camp. 



We had been gone about two hours, and had seen 

 several footprints of gorillas ; so we knew that they 

 were in the neighborhood. Suddenly Rogala stopped, 

 and said in a whisper : " Oguizi, listen." 



His quick ear had heard a noise far, far away. I 

 listened, and soon heard what I thought was the re- 

 verberation of thunder among the hills. The noise 



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