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that the assertions of a recent traveller, who, so far 

 as the Gorilla is concerned, really does very little 

 more than repeat, on his own authority, the state- 

 ments of Savage and of Ford, should have met 

 with so much and such bitter opposition. If sub- 

 traction be made of what was known before, the 

 sum and substance of what M. Du Chaillu has 

 affirmed as a matter of his own observation 

 respecting the Gorilla, is, that, in advancing to the 

 attack, the great brute beats his chest with his 

 fists. I confess I see nothing very improbable, 

 or vei y much worth disputing about, in this state- 

 ment. 



Witl respect to the other man-like Apes of 

 Africa, II. Du Chaillu tells us absolutely nothing, 

 of his >wn knowledge, regarding the common 

 Chimpanzee; but he informs us of a bald-headed 

 species or variety, the n&chiego mlouve, which 

 builds itself a shelter, and of another rare kind 

 with a comparatively small face, large facial angle, 

 and peculiar note, resembling " Kooloo." 



As the Orang shelters itself with a rough 

 coverlet of leaves, and the common Chimpanzee, 

 according to that eminently trustworthy observer 

 Dr. Savage, makes a sound like " Whoo-whoo," 

 the grounds of the summary repudiation with 

 which M. Du Chaillu's statements on these matters 

 have been met are not obvious. 



If I have abstained from quoting M. Du Chaillu's 

 work, then, it is not because I discern any in* 



