March 2, 191 1] 



NATURE 



Geography." All that we know of this subject 

 makes it nearly conclusive that Hanno's expedition 

 reached as far as Sherbro Island, at the eastern limit 



sian Sahara), and would not have remarked on 

 it with the same emphasis as they did, evidently, 

 in connection with the chimpanzee skins. 



An allusion is 

 twice made — not 

 necessarily with 

 credence — to Rud- 

 yard Kipling's story 

 of " Bertran and 

 Bimi." The theme 

 of this was that a 

 German residing in 

 the Malay Archi- 

 pelago possessed a 

 huge orang which 

 was so jealous of 

 his newly -wedded 

 wife, that upon the 

 woman being left 

 alone, one . day it 

 tore away the 

 thatch of her house, 

 entered her bed- 

 room, dragged her 

 from the bed, and 

 destroyed her. Here 

 is an instance 

 where "" literature " 

 steps in and tries 

 to improve on f^ct, 

 with disappointmg 

 results. Mr. Kip- 

 ling's story was 

 based on a real 

 incident which oc- 

 curred (to the know- 

 ledge of the present 

 of the Sierra Leone district, and that the wild, hairy writer) in South Africa, where a huge Chakma baboon 



I. — Two Baby Anthropoid Apes." From " Of Distinguished Animals 



men and women brought back by his people were the 

 chimpanzees which still inhabit the forests of the 



really did, in like circumstances, kill, or attempt 

 to kill, the young wife of his master. Anyone who. 



Fig. 2. — Siberian Tiger, ironi 'Ut Distinguished Animals." 



Sherbro district. The Carthaginians were well 

 enough acquainted with the baboon (which in those 

 times was found not only in Egypt, but in the Tuni- 



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knows baboons and their extraordinary jealousy might 

 well believe in the truth of such an incident, but as 

 applied to the orang utan — to anyone who knows the 



