ioo THE MINDS AND MANNERS 



otherwise! It sets a new mark in gorilla lore, and it lifts a 

 curtain from an animal mind that previously was unknown, and 

 very generally misunderstood. 



To the Doubting Thomases who will doubt some portions 

 of Miss Cunningham's story, let me cite, by way of caution, the 

 following history: 



When Du Chaillu discovered the gorilla, and came to 

 America and England with his specimens to tell about it, he 

 said that when a big gorilla is attacked and made angry it 

 beats its breast, repeatedly, with its clenched fists. The wise- 

 acres of that day solemnly shook their heads and said: "Oh, 

 no! That can not be true. No ape ever did that. He is 

 romancing !" But now we know that this breast-beating and 

 chest-clapping habit is to a gorilla a common-place performance, 

 even in captivity. 



Sometimes there are more things in heaven and earth than 

 are dreamt of in all our philosophy. 



