Wild Beasts and Their Ways 47 
Anyone who visits the Zoological 
Gardens may satisfy himself that the chim- 
panzee can laugh with an almost human 
cachinnation. They can also cry lke a 
human being and shriek hke a human 
baby; but it is a curious thing that I have 
never noticed amid all the passionate, 
hysterical outbursts of baboons and apes 
any tears trickling from the eyes. They 
would appear to weep dry-eyed. I would 
not, however, lke to dogmatise on this | 
point. Curiously enough, the very young 
gorilla does not bear the same startling 
resemblance to the human baby as is 
borne by the chimpanzee. 
The geographical range of the chim- 
panzee in Africa, even at the present 
day, is more considerable than is generally 
It 
set forth in books of natural history. 
is found in true West Africa, in the  pyom a Photograph. 
forest region to the south of Sierra /A YOUNG ORANG. 
Leone, and also at the back of the 
Ivory Coast. It reappears again in the forests of Southern Nigeria, and thence northwards 
to the vicinity of the Benue, and from this river extends almost uninterruptedly 
southwards and eastwards to the Congo. The chimpanzee is found nearly throughout the 
Congo basin, except in the more or less thickly inhabited regions to the south of the 
From a Photograph. 
‘A YOUNG ORANG,, 
The Orang comes much nearer to human nakedness 
than the more hairy African Apes, 
river Congo. It was formerly found in parts of 
Angola, but appears to be nearly extinct in that 
Portuguese colony at the present day. Chimpanzees 
are also reported from the forest regions at the 
sources of the main Zambezi. They are still met 
with right across the southern basin of the Congo 
to the vicinity of Lake Tanganyika. Schweinfurth 
and Hmin Pasha discovered that the chimpanzee 
was found within the: watershed of the Nile, in 
that region known as the Bahr-el-Ghazal. Hmin 
Pasha also asserted that the chimpanzee was met 
with in Unyoro, to -the east of Lake Albert 
Nyanza. The present writer was able to confirm 
this statement by obtaining living and dead 
chimpanzees from that district. He also found 
that the chimpanzee existed in Toro and parts of 
Ankole, in fact, on the verge of the Kingdom of 
Uganda proper. In the Luganda language a 
name exists for the chimpanzee, and the natives 
have a tradition that this ape was found until 
quite recently in the Forest of Kiagwe, close 
to the Victoria Nile. Other traditions would 
appear to indicate its recent existence on the 
western slopes of Mount Elgon. It was also 
asserted at one time that natives of lands in the 
