Lake Kivu 



of their sleeping-places, which were made on the spreading 

 branches of high trees. These were platforms of bent and 

 broken branches and may be considered as the first rudi- 

 ments of our present-day gigantic structures in stone and 

 iron. 



From information gained from my three guides (one of 

 whom was a typical forest dwarf, more like a monkey than 

 a man), and from my own observation, it was evident that 

 there were no gorillas in this forest. The chimpanzi, or 

 Impundu to give it its native name, was the only ape to 

 be found here, as far as I could ascertain. 



Knowing now which direction to take, the following 

 morning I again set out. After a walk of an hour or more 

 along a small track, where the bushes were still wet with 

 the heavy dew, we passed a trap set for a chimpanzi (con- 

 sisting of a running noose, surrounding a circular hole in 

 the ground), which looked as if we were on the right road. 

 This proved to be the case, for very shortly afterwards we 

 heard the tell-tale, long-drawn-out call, " Woo-oo-oo-oo." 



Having been warned by the padres at the Mission con- 

 cerning a superstition of the Batwa in connection with their 

 totem of this man-ape, I was not surprised that two of my 

 Batwa guides suddenly left me and disappeared round a 

 neighbouring thicket. However, I had still one left and 

 determined to hang to him. Advancing in the direction 

 of the sounds we struck the spoor of two of the animals. 

 Their tracks being easy to follow in the soft loam, as well as 

 being indicated by the broken bamboo shoots strewn on 

 either side, we had little difficulty in coming up with them. 

 But, alas for my hopes, I was discovered in the act of raising 

 my rifle and Mr. Chimpanzi (the other I never saw) was off 



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