602 MAMMALIA. 



Yet, in the external resemblance of the Gorilla to 3Ian there is 

 somethins' startling. M. du Chaillu confesses that he has never 

 killed a Gorilla without experiencing real uneasiness. He could 

 never bring himself to taste the flesh of these animals, because he 

 looked upon doing so as an act of cannibalism. 



"I have never been able," he wi-ites, "before a slain Gorilla to 

 maintain that indifference, much less experience the triumphant 

 joy of a hunter. It always seemed as if a fellow-creature, a 

 monstrous one it is true, but still having about it something 

 human, was my victim. It was a delusion ; I knew it, but j'et 

 the feeling was stronger than myself." 



These moral impressions, however, can avail nothing against 

 the results of the comparisons and anatomical investigations which 

 place the Gorilla far below our spiecies in the scale of being. 



Genus Chimpanzee. — Of all known Monkej's, the Chimpanzee 

 {Troglodytes niger) is certainly that which, in its gait, its ana- 

 tomical organisation, and the vivacity' of its intelligence, comes 

 nearest to the hunian species. In the first place, its arms are not 

 so long as those of the anthropomorphous apes of which we have 

 been speaking, and scarcelj' descend below the knee. Its hands 

 and feet more resemble the tj'jDes of perfection realised in Man — a 

 circumstance which renders a vertical attitude more easy than in 

 the other Monkej^s of the same group. A vertical position is not 

 at all times, however, its ordinary attitude ; and it is only with 

 the aid of a stick that it can maintain itself erect for any length 

 of time. Lastly, in the Chimpanzee, as in Man, we observe the 

 presence of a calf, slightly developed, it is true, but sufficiently 

 characterised to justify this Monkey's holding the rank it does 

 among the Quadrumana. 



The Chimpanzee inhabits the same regions as the GoriUa ; the 

 dense forests of intertropical Africa are the places where it is 

 exclusively met. Yet it is rare everywhere, except about the 

 Gaboon and in the neighbourhood of Cape Lopez. In a physical, 

 and more particularly in a moral, point of view, it differs much 

 from the Gorilla. Its muscular power, although very remarkable, 

 is less extraordinary than that of the Gorilla, and it never resorts 

 to it except in cases of absolute necessity. If it finds itself in the 

 presence of its pursuer, and it sees any possibility of escaping from 

 danger by flight, it does not stay to oflfer resistance for a single 



