384 Incidents of Foreign Field Sport. 



The gate of the stockade was partially opened, and the 

 Kruboy thrust in. I could see all that went on. The 

 anthropoid was emaciated, looked sickly in face, and 

 had a large swelling under the left ribs, which, in a 

 man, would represent an enlarged spleen. He was 

 nearly six feet high, had he stood upright, he would 

 have been that fully. His vis-d-vis, Blue Euin, was 

 fully six feet three inches, and modelled like an 

 Achilles or Hercules, but his power was useless, for 

 the poor fellow was half dead with fright, and did 

 nothing but bewail his fate. The ape eyed him for a 

 few minutes, and then crouching somewhat, propelling 

 himself by his feet and fore arms, his knuckles doubled 

 up, the weight resting on them, he advanced on the 

 African. " Look out, Blue Euin ! " I cried, " hit him 

 on the lump under his ribs with all your might." 

 But I might just as well have spoken to a monument, 

 as to the poor frightened creature. The man and ape 

 closed. I shall never forget the horrid sight. In less 

 time than it takes me to tell the tale, my poor boy 

 was torn asunder by the gorilla, and the remains 

 scattered over the enclosure. No sooner was my 

 faithful follower dead than I was seized and thrown 

 into the compound. I anticipated a similar fate, 

 but I knew that a blow inflicted on an enlarged 

 spleen in man, proves instantly fatal ; so I deter- 

 mined to have a fight for dear life. My antagonist 

 was greatly blown by his exertions, and did not 

 attack me at once. This enabled me to swing about 

 my arms, and so get back circulation, which had 

 been impeded in them by having been tied so long 

 together. Now these anthropoids rend not only 

 with their fore feet or arms, but by their hind ones 



