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some new comer, playfully mumbling at his calves, pulling at hia 

 beard (a special delight), clinging to his arms, examining his hat 

 (not at all to its improvement), curiously inquisitive as to his 

 umbrella, and so on with visitor after visitor. If he becomes over- 

 excited by the fun, a gentle box on the ear would bring him to order, 

 like a child, only to be ou the romps again immediately. He points 

 with the index-finger, claps with his hands, puts out his tougue, 

 feeds on a mixed diet, decidedly prefers roast meats to boiled, eats 

 strawberries, as I saw, with delicate appreciativeness, Is exquisitively 

 clean and mannerly. The palms of his hands and feet are beauti- 

 fully plump, soft, and black as jet. He has been eight months and 

 a half in the possession of the Expedition." 



This animal was very shortly afterwards taken to 

 Berlin, and a paragraph in " Nature," Nov. 9, 1876, gives 

 some further interestiiig particulars concerning him, which 

 were communicated by Dr. Hermes to the meeting of the 

 * German Association of Naturalists and Physicians.' 



" He nods and claps his hands to visitors ; wakes up like a man, 

 and stretches himself. His keeper must always be beside him, and 

 eat with him." They partake of the same food. He sleeps for 

 eight hours. "His easy life has increased his weight in a few 

 months from thirty-one to thirty-seven pounds. For some weeks 

 he had inflammation of the lungs, when his old friend Dr. Falken- 

 stein was fetched, who treated him with quinine and Ems water, 

 which made him better. When Dr. Hermes left the Gorilla on the 

 previous Sunday the latter showed the doctor his tongue, 

 clapped his hands, and squeezed the hand of the doctor, as 

 an indication, the latter believed, of his recovery. In fact the 

 Gorilla is now one of the most popular inhabitants of the Prussian 

 capital." In July, 1877, he paid a visit to London, and fully sus- 

 tained the rei)utation he had already acquired. 



Speaking of an Orang which he had examined and 

 watched, Buffon says : — 



** Its air was melancholy, its deportment grave, its nature more 

 gentle and very different from other apes. Unlike the baboon or 

 the monkey, whose motions are violent and appetites capricious, 

 who are fond of mischief, and only obedient through fear, a look 



