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dollars for a live specimen without being able to 

 obtain it. According to H. Ton Koppenfels, the 

 gorilla inhabits the district which lies between the 

 mouth of the Muni and that of the Congo. 



According to Pechuel-Losche, the gorilla is rare 

 on the Loan go coast. In this district it inhabits the 

 mountainous forests or the strip of country in their 

 immediate vicinity. Some years ago these apes 

 were found on the Luemme and Kuilu, even down 

 to the mouths of these rivers, and also in the ravines 

 of the plateau of Buala ; but they now only come to 

 the coast at Banya, where the same authority be- 

 lieves that he once heard gorillas. Neither Pechuel- 

 Losche, Falkenstein, nor Giissfeldt have ever seen 

 the species in its wild state.* The specimen brought 

 to Berlin by these travellers in 1876 was obtained 

 by Falkenstein in October, 1875, at Ponta-Negra on 

 the Loango coast, where it was presented to him 

 by the Portuguese trader Laurentino Antonio dos 

 Santos. This animal, which was then extremely 

 young, had been brought from the Kuilu district by 

 a negro, who had shot its mother.t 



In earlier accounts given by Owen, the district 

 most frequented by gorillas was in the region of the 

 Gaboon, which presents a pleasant variety of hill 

 and dale. Here the high ground is clothed with fine, 

 tall trees, while the valleys are rich in grass, with a 

 scattered growth of underwood. There are a num- 

 ber of trees and shrubs, bearing fruits which the 

 natives find inedible, but which are greedily de- 



* Die Loango Expedition, Abth. iii. p. 248 : Leipzig, 1882. 

 t Ibid., Abth. ii. p. 150. 



