CHAPTER V. 



HUNTING CHIMPANZEES. 



N this same family of anthropoids the chimpan- 

 zee, after the gorilla, is the monkey most re- 

 sembling man. He climbs with much greater 

 ease than the gorilla, and can stand as straight as he ; but 

 when he wishes to move he is obliged to fall on all fours, 

 where the gorilla usually walks in an upright position. 

 Although of a savage enough nature, especially when full 

 grown, the chimpanzee is readily tamed, and in this way 

 more than makes up for his physical inferiority to the 

 gorilla. He is as intelligent, gentle, and social in his 

 instincts as the other is stupidly fierce. And where the 

 latter is more like man in stature and build, the former 

 resembles him even more in the quickness of his intelli- 

 gence and the gentleness of his ways, after domestica- 

 tion. When wild he is very industrious, building stout 

 shelters for himself in tall trees twenty-five or thirty feet 

 from the ground, and never on it like the gorilla. And, 

 different again from the latter, he is fond of climbing, 

 and his gymnastic exercises would make a professional 

 acrobat jealous. On my voyage up the Niger and on the 

 shores of Guinea I saw crowds of these animals, and 



