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suspiciously to the bush, said, ' Massa, baboo live there,' and in 

 a few minutes the woods appeared alive with them. My guide 

 showed evident fear, and entreated me not to proceed any farther." 

 Our brave lieutenant did proceed farther, however, and secured a 

 young " baboo," though not without first shooting its mother. 



M. du Chaillu, about whom we shall have more to say by-and- 

 by, puts aside the accounts which the natives give of the habits 

 of the Chimpanzee as mere idle stories, and asserts that though 

 the young consort in companies, the adults are always found 

 alone or in pairs ; that the animal builds no sort of shelter for 

 itself, and that it is never known to attack man. He makes 

 known to us, however, two new Apes, which, according to Pro- 

 fessor Owen, are to be regarded as varieties of the Chimpanzee 

 one the Kooloo-Kamba, so called from the peculiar cry which it 

 utters ; and the other, the Nshiego-mbouve, a bald-headed fellow 

 which constructs for itself an umbrella-shaped shelter, of about 

 ten feet in diameter, high up on the lofty trees which it inhabits. 

 Of the Kooloo-Kamba only a single specimen was seen, but the 

 Nshiego-mbouve afforded M. du. Chaillu better opportunities for 

 the observation of its habits, and he gives a very interesting 

 account of a young specimen which he captured, and which he 

 preserved alive for five months. 



The adult Chimpanzee, as may readily be supposed, is no 

 easy matter to capture alive ; but young individuals have fre- 

 quently been obtained and exhibited in this country, though 

 none of them, unfortunately, have reached maturity. We must 

 still look to some Liverpool captain, trading to the Gold Coast, 

 for a full-grown specimen, 



