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As I have already remarked, the chimpanzee 

 occupies a much wider area than the gorilla. In 

 West Africa it is found in the latitude of the Portu- 

 guese territory, which ranges from Cacheu in the 

 north down to the Coanza in the south. The species 

 is known to exist in certain districts of north and 

 south Central Africa, and its presence is surmised in 

 East Africa^^to the south of Abyssinia, in the Djuba 

 territory, and, as the missionary A. Nachtigall asserts, 

 even in the remote district of Sofalla in the south- 

 east of Africa, but I cannot pledge myself to the 

 truth of this fact. 



The chimpanzee is also a denizen of forests. They 

 subsist on wild fruits of various kinds, but they will 

 also visit forsaken plantations, and even those which 

 are still under cultivation, and in some cases it seems 

 that they do not reject animal food. Pechuel-Losche 

 says that on the Loango coast they frequent the 

 mountains and their vicinity. They are found in the 

 district of Luemme as far as the lagoon of Tschis- 

 sambo, and in those of Kuilu and Banya, as far as 

 the coast. 



The chimpanzee either lives in separate families 

 or in small groups of families. In many districts, 

 as, for example, in the forest regions of Central 

 Africa, its habits are even more arboreal than those 

 of the gorilla. Elsewhere, as, for instance, on the 

 south-west coast, it seems to live more upon the 

 ground. The bam-chimpanzee of Niam-Niam in- 

 habits the galleries, as they were called by Piaggia 

 and Schweinfurth ; that is, the forest trees growing 

 one above the other in stages, of which the growth is 



