500 THE TROPICAL WORLD. 



left-handed jerk, which threw the delinquent high in air, head 

 over heels. 



' He came down a sadder and a better coati, and retired with 

 shame and fear to a distant corner. Having executed this act 

 of justice, Chim betook himself to a tree. A large baboon, who 

 had in the meantime made his appearance in the circle, thought 

 this was a good opportunity of doing a civil thing, and accord- 

 ingly mounted the tree, and sat down smilingly, as baboons 

 smile, upon the next fork. Chim slowly turned his head at 

 this attempt at familiarity, measured the distance, raised his 

 hind foot, and as composedly as he had caned the coati, kicked 

 the big baboon off his perch into the arena below. This 

 abasement seemed to do the baboon good, for he also retired 

 like the coati, and took up his station on the other side.' 



The body of the chimpanzee is covered with long hair 

 on the head, shoulders, and back, but much thinner on the 

 breast and belly. The arms and legs are not so dispropor- 

 tionate as those of the uran, the fore-fingers not quite 

 touching the knees when the animal stands upright. The 

 upper part of the head is very flat, with a retiring forehead, 

 and a prominent bony ridge over the eye-brows, the mouth is 

 wide, the ears large, the nose flat, and the face of a blackish- 

 brown colour. 



From this short notice it will be seen at once that friend 

 Chim has not the least claim to beauty, but yet he is far from 

 equalling the hideous deformity of the Grorilla, whom M. Du 

 Chaillu has so prominently introduced to public notice. This 

 savage animal, which is covered with black hair like the cliim- 

 panzee, and resembles it in the proportion of its body and limbs, 

 though its form is much more robust, unites a most ferocious 

 and undaunted temper with an herculean bodily strength, and 

 is said to hold undisputed dominion of the hill-forests in the 

 interior of Lower Gruinea, forcing even the panther to igno- 

 minious flight. 



To kill a gorilla is considered by the negroes as a most cou- 

 rageous exploit ; and Dr. Savage, an American missionary on the 

 coast of Gruinea, who, in a memoir published at Boston in the 

 year 1847, was the first to point out the generic differences be- 

 tween this formidable ape and the chimpanzee, tells us that a 

 slave having shot a male and female gorilla, whose skeletons 



