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parents and two young ones. The female climbed 

 up an iba, or wild mango tree, and shook down its 

 fruits. The male went to the water's edge' to drink, 

 and was then shot by Koppenfels, while the female 

 and her young swiftly escaped. Another time this 

 traveller was in the neighbourhood of Busu, in the 

 Bakalayan country, which is on the Eliva Sanka, 

 and is bounded on the south-east by the mountains 

 of Aschangolo and by extensive primeval forests. 

 It was here that he observed the troop of chim- 

 panzees and gorillas of which we have already 

 spoken, feeding on the kola nuts, of which they are 

 very fond. He shot a large and a smaU specimen 

 of the chimpanzee; and again in the Aschangolo 

 mountains he shot a male gorilla, 1090 mm. in 

 height. The bullet pierced the animal's heart, and 

 it sprang into the air with outstretched arms, and 

 then crashed down upon its face. It dragged down 

 in its fall a liana of great strength with all its dry 

 and green branches. 



Adult male gorillas attain to a height varying 

 between 1500 to 2000 mm., and very rarely exceed 

 that height. The height of the females is about 

 1500 mm. An ape of this species, examined by 

 Ford, weighed 170 lb. without the viscera. The 

 gorilla shot by Koppenfels in the Aschangolo moun- 

 tains was more than 400 lbs. in weight. By the 

 people of Mpongwe, Orungu, Kamma, Galloa, and 

 Bakalay the gorilla is called Njina, Njeina, or 

 Indjina, and by the people of Fan it is called 

 Nguyala. On the Loango coast it is called N'Pungu 

 or M'Pungu. 



