BABY GOKILLAS. 27 



young gorilla roared and bellowed, and looked around 

 wildly with his wicked little eyes, giving fair warning 

 that if he could only get at some one he would take 

 his revenge. In two hours they had built a strong 

 bamboo house, with the bars sufficiently apart to 

 enable the ape to see and to be seen. Here he was 

 immediately deposited, and M. du Chaillu enjoyed 

 the opportunity of tranquilly examining his prize. 



" It was a young male, evidently not yet three years 

 old. Its face and hands were very black ; eyes not so 

 much sunken as in the adult. The hair began just at 

 the eyebrows and rose to the crown, where it was of a 

 reddish-brown. It came down the sides of the face in 

 lines to the lower jaw, much as our beards grow. The 

 upper lip was covered with short coarse hair, the lower 

 lip had longer hair. The eyelids very slight and thin ; 

 eyebrows straight, and three-quarters of an inch long. 



" The whole back was covered with hair of an iron- 

 grey, becoming dark nearer the arms, and quite white 

 about the anus ; chest and abdomen covered with hair, 

 which was somewhat thin and short on the breast. On 

 the arms the hair was longer than anywhere on the 

 body, and of a greyish-black colour, caused by the roots 

 of the hair being dark and the ends whitish. On the 

 hands and wrists the hair was black, and came down to 

 the second joints of the fingers, though one could see 

 in the short down the beginning of the long black hair 



