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and vanquishing the elephants, related by voyagers and widely 
copied into books, are unhesitatingly denied. They have been 
averred of the Chimpanzée, but this is still more preposterous. 
They probably had their origin in the marvellous accounts 
given by the natives, of the Engé-ena, to credulous traders. 
Their dwellings, if they may be so called, are similar to 
those of the Chimpanzée, consisting simply of a few sticks and 
leafy branches supported by the crotches and limbs of trees ; 
they afford no shelter, and are occupied only at night.' 
They are exceedingly ferocious, and always offensive in their 
habits, never running from man as does the Chimpanzée. They 
are objects of terror to the natives, and are never encountered 
by them except on the defensive. The few that have been 
captured were killed by elephant hunters and native traders as 
they came suddenly upon them while passing through the 
forests. : 
It is said that when the male is first seen he gives a terrific 
yell that resounds far and wide through the forest, something 
like kh—ah! kh—ah! prolonged and shrill. His enormous 
jaws are widely opened at each expiration, his under lip hangs 
over the chin, and the hairy ridge and scalp is contracted upon 
the brow, presenting an aspect of indescribable ferocity- The 
females and young at the first ery quickly disappear ; he å 
approaches the enemy in great fury, pouring out his horrid 
cries in quick succession. 'The hunter awaits his approach 
with his gun extended; if his aim is not sure he permits 
animal to grasp the barrel, and as he carries it to his mouth 
(which is his habit) he fires ; should the gun fail to go off, the 
barrel (that of an ordinary musket, which. is thin) is | 
between his teeth, and the encounter soon proves fatal to the 
unter. 
1 The natives ridicule this habit of the Engé-ena. "They call him 2 fool, to m 
house without a roof, in a country where they have so much rain. They " roof, 
not so much sense as a certain bird, which makes a large nest with a tight round 
then it daubs the inside with mud, and unfolding its wings vun a house. M: 
Nace are all E and the inside smoothly Baie SE fts habit 
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