50 Dr. L. J. Sanford on the Gorilla. 
gregarious, and the males are not so cowardly and ungallant as 
to forsake their females in time of peril, and again, even the fe- 
This description savors considerably of the fabulous, for no 
Species exists among all the apes we venture to assert, making 
So near an approach to humanity as Battel’s Pongo ;—what that 
word means in the Mayomba dialect, we have been unable to 
ascertain; but, in the report of him just quoted, we see more of 
the gorilla in what pongo is, than in what he does. 
-__ It is thought by many, that the ape referred to by T. E. Bow- 
ditch, in his account of a mission from Cape Coast Castle to 
Ashantee, published in London in 1819, is the gorilla; but his 
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