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conversation. Thus he may attract certain individuals, 

 especially females, about him ; presumably they will be 

 favorably prepossessed with so agreeable an anthropoid 

 as the professor, and intimacies may result which will 

 afford most profitable opportunities for conversation. 

 He will not venture out of the cage, however. 



A great number of phonographs will be placed around 

 the inside of the cage, with large trumpets fixed to their 

 diaphragms and pointing outward. If any gorillas ap- 

 proach the barred inclosure and have any remarks to 

 make of a hostile or amatory nature, the electric bat- 

 teries controlling the phonographs can be turned on at 

 a moment's notice, and the words uttered will be indeli- 

 bly recorded for future study. More than that, with 

 the actual scientific apparatus which Prof. Grarner has 

 taken with him, he will not only record voices, but will 

 by means of electric communication snap a camera on 

 him. The visitor will be photographed just as he is, never 

 having been cramped by confinement, and will only be 

 captured afterwards, if possible. For should the gorilla 

 ever touch the iron bars of the cage, either in a playful 

 way or in order to get more intimate with its inmate, a 

 mighty electric shock will be given him, making him 

 helpless and leaving him at the mercy of the captor. 



All this seems like a Jules Verne excursion into Fairy 

 Land, but with a man as a directing spirit, who will go 

 to Africa, taking with him all those implements which 

 have positive and practical effectiveness, much may be 

 expected. No one can know what Mr. Garner may ac- 

 complish, but even now we know that his discovery is 

 a most important, a most striking one. We need not yet 

 think of those propositions which the ever-ready funny 

 papers have made, to send out missionaries among the 

 monkeys and to civilize them; we need not think of 

 learning ourselves their language in order to be able to 

 converse with them. It is even premature to point out the 



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