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are confounded in the minds of the mass, especially as 

 but few such as traders to the interior and huntsmen 

 have ever seen the animal in question. 



FIG. 10. The Gorilla (after Wolff). 



" The tribe from which our knowledge of the animal 

 is derived, and whose territory forms its habitat, is the 

 Mpongwe, occupying both banks of the River Gaboon, 

 from its mouth to some fifty or sixty miles upward. . . , 



