62 Dr. L. J. Sanford on the Gorilla. 
this animal was perfectly tame, docile and tractable,—far more 
ame age. 
But if the animals were taken young, and properly cared for and 
kindly treated for a term of months or years, we see not why 
work, which illustrate the romance and the danger of gorilla hunt- 
i he author describes, in the following graphic style, bis 
first meeting with an old male, and the results: 
y- 
“The singular noise of the breaking of tree branches continued. We 
_ walked with the greatest care, making no noise at all. The countenances 
of the men showed that they thought themselves engaged in a very 8¢- 
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