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is said, “at least a mile off. m1): If the hunter then makes no re- 
treat, the brute advances towards him, repeatin as he moves, 
the terrific roar and thumps. The right shooting distance is six 
or eight yards. If a ball takes effect in the head or chest, the 
animal falls and dies quickly,—for, like man, he has not a strong 
tenacity of life. If the hunter misses the mark, woe be to him, 
for the alternative is, to kill or be killed; before he can reload, 
the beast is upon him, and one blow of his large fist, suffices to 
erush in the unfortunate man’s skull, or frightfully lacerate his 
trunk.* The female gorilla is not thus fearless and courageous; 
she seeks to escape when pursued, unless the safety of her young 
. imperilled ; for them, it is said, she will resist, even unto 
eat 
The roar of the male gorilla to which we have referred, is de- 
scribed by DuChaillu, as the most singular and awful noise 
heard in the African forest, he says, “it begins with a sharp bark, 
like an angry dog, then glides into a deep bass roll, which lit- 
erally and closely resembles the roll of distant thunder along the 
sky, for which I have orcs been tempted to take it, where 
I did not see the animal. is it that it seems to proceed 
less from the mouth and en oy. from the deep chest and 
vast paunch.” 
In his diet, the gorilla is Ei as being a strict vege 
tarian. If this is true, we d his canine teeth as 
rudimentary tusks, and as wali sas either for purposes of 
* This statement concerning the way in beer the gorilla attacks his foe, is made 
on the tae hi of Mr. DuChaillu. We question its authenticity however, for the 
n gorilla having nai/s inst lof claws at the extremities of the é 
would mestlty be able to make an extensive lacerated wound with his — On this 
ground Mr. Charles Waterton denies that the animal is at all pugilistic 
ter. Mr. Waterton says, in the London Atheneum for Oe 19th, cet “ Let me re- 
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Rast nae: (See a narrative cited on P- 
8 of this Journal) 
