DOMESTICATING MY GORILLA. 71 



run to cover and hide wlien his roars re-echo through the 

 forests. Even the elephant gets such blows and bites 

 from him that, the natives say, although he is able to 

 cope with him, he prefers not to fight. In the order of 

 primates and even in his own family of anthropoids, the 

 gorilla occupies a place apart and seems to deserve a 

 special family for himself. We have finished with this 

 interesting and mysterious animal, which, looking only 

 at his physical structure, is the being, in nature, nearest 

 like man. 



