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eat the wild berries and fruits collected for him in 

 the forest, and also the soft parts of pine-apple 

 leaves. He escaped from his cage, and was only 

 recaptured, after many fruitless endeavours, by 

 throwing a net over him. The traveller adds that 

 he had never seen so furious a creature as this 

 gorilla. He flew at every one who came near him, 

 bit the bamboo lattice- work of his cage, and showed, 

 on every possible occasion, that he was of a tho- 

 roughly malicious and unkindly nature. He broke 

 loose a second time, and was again captured, and at 

 the end of ten days he died suddenly. 



Somewhat later Du Chaillu obtained a young 

 female gorilla, which clung affectionately to its 

 mother's dead body, so that all the spectators were 

 affected by its grief. The creature was too young 

 to be fed on anything but milk, and since this was 

 unattainable, it died three days after its capture. 



Eeade, Lenz, and Buchholz were more fortunate 

 in their experience with the gorillas captured by 

 them, and Lenz wrote to me as follows about one 

 of these animals : — " On my return to the Gaboon 

 from a journey to Okanda, I was attacked by a some- 

 what serious fever which hung about me for a long 

 while. A living gorilla, which was brought to the 

 German factory on the Gaboon, was some compen- 

 sation to me for this involuntary idleness. The 

 creature came from Kamma (Fernand Vaz), the 

 place from which Du Chaillu also obtained his 

 specimens, and was captured out of a troop of eight 

 animals. A small dog, which had been somewhat 

 injured by an old gorilla, afterwards killed, pre- 



