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so closely that I could have touched him by stretching out my 

 arm. Suddenly he caught the scent, and tore away trumpeting, 

 taking the others along with him, and the whole herd rushed 

 madly past. 



Wiese had in the meantime gone back to Kissenji on urgent 

 business, and letters called for my return there also. So we 

 shifted our camp in the direction of Kissenji, into the domain 

 of the chieftain Chuma. 



The motive that led us just there was principally the assertion 

 of the Batwa that it was the haunt of the impjindii, the name by 

 which the gorilla was known at Mgahinga. The truth of this 

 peculiar story had, of course, to be tested. It was important to 

 determine whether the impundu was another form of gorilla, or 

 whether it was another breed of the anthropomorphous ape. I 

 may state straightaway that the latter was the case, and it 

 proved to be a large kind of chimpanzee, the tschego. So the 

 name impundu served for both. 



We found by observation that the impundu, gorillas as well as 

 tschegos, haunted the margins of the upper forest. At Mgahinga 

 we found fresh droppings, and trails on the margin of the 

 bamboo and upper forest boundaries, though in the interior v,-e 

 never observed any signs of their existence. 



Little is known so far as to the habits of the tschego. We 

 were able to verify with certainty its custom of using trees for 

 a sleeping place at night, and that the favourites were the lofty 

 podocarpus — the umufu and the mutoie — which are free from 

 branches up to the crown, obviously because they afford an exten- 

 sive view and also the greatest safety. In the morning the 

 tschegos, who live in families of five to eight, leave their sleeping- 

 trees somewhere between seven and nine o'clock, letting themselves 

 down to the ground with the greatest nimbleness, to feed on 

 young bamboo shoots. The tschego is not exactly fastidious in 

 his food. The Batwa told us that he is fond of leaves, fruit- 

 skins, blossoms, and tender tree-shoots, though as far as my own 

 observation went, he confined himself to the sapotaceae {tnutoie). 



