32 THE MAN-LIKE APES I 



doubt for not only does the " Enge*-ena " agree 

 with BatteH's " greater monster " in its hollow 

 eyes, its great stature, and its dun or iron-grey 

 colour, but the only other man-like Ape which in- 

 habits these latitudes the Chimpanzee is at 

 once identified, by its smaller size, as the " lesser 

 monster," and is excluded from any possibility of 

 being the " Pongo," by the fact that it is black and 

 not dun, to say nothing of the important circum- 

 stance already mentioned that it still retains the 

 name of " Engeko," or "Enche-eko," by which 

 Battell knew it. 



In seeking for a specific name for the " Enge- 

 ena," however, Dr. Savage wisely avoided the 

 much misused " Pongo " ; but finding in the 

 ancient Periplus of Hanno the word " Gorilla " 

 applied to certain hairy savage people, discovered 

 by the Carthaginian voyager in an island on the 

 African coast, he attached the specific name 

 " Gorilla " to his new ape, whence arises its 

 present well-known appellation. But Dr. Savage, 

 more cautious than some of his successors, by no 

 means identifies his ape with Hamio's " wild men." 

 He merely says that the latter were "probably 

 one of the species of the Orang;" and I quite 

 agree with M. Brulle, that there is no ground 

 for identifying the modern "Gorilla" with that 

 of the Carthaginian admiral. 



Since the memoir of Savage and Wyman was 

 published, the skeleton of the Gorilla has been 



