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through the thick woods the moving of 
be 
in a silence which made a heavy breath seem loud and distinct, the 
woods were at once filled with the tremendous barking roar of the 
rilla. 
“Then the underbrush swayed rapidly just ahead, and presently before 
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stopped when at a distance of about six yards from us. And here, as he 
re eae of his roars and beating his breast in rage, we fired and 
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“With a groan which had something terribly human in it, and yet 
was full of brutishness, it fell forward on its face. © s con- 
vulsively for a few minutes, the limbs moved about in a struggling way, 
and then all was quiet—death had done its work, an leisure to 
strength it had possessed 
Having heard how Mr. DuChaillu killed gorillas, let us learn 
how a huge specimen killed one of his men,—he and his aids 
came upon one of the party, wounded on the ground—he thus 
describes the encounter. 
“Our little ted, as is the custom, to stalk the wood in va- 
Tious deidbas” Vin te id I kept together. One brave fellow went 
off alone in a direction where he puiegae he could find a gorilla. The . 
other three took another course. 
“We had been about an hour separated when Gambo and I heard a 
gun fired but a little way from us, and presently another. We were al- 
* Adventures in Equatorial Africa, p. 98, 
