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of fat on the cheeks. The creature was, moreover, 

 strongly built, and the region of the hips and the 

 belly were contracted, while the hands and feet 

 were large and powerful. When I first saw this 



Fig. 61.— Mafuca. 



savage creature, early in September, 1875, it was 

 full of vigour, and I was almost convinced that I 

 saw a female gorilla, not quite adult, an opinion 

 shared by such zoologists as K. Th. von Siebold and 

 others, while it was vehemently opposed by Bolau 

 and A. B. Meyer. At that time I made a drawing 

 of its profile, which is given in Fig. 61, and which 

 was taken at a moment when the animal happened 



