THE CHIMPANZEE. 1 1 



country. I saw his maimed ami and he repeated the same story. " 

 Then one of the men spoke up: 'If we kill a gorilla to-morrow, 

 I should like to have a part of the brain for a fetich. 

 Nothing makes a man so brave as to have a fetich of 

 gorilla's brain. That gives a man a strong heart.' Chorus {pi 

 those who remained awake) 'Yes; that gives a man a strong 

 heart.'" A fetich of the brain of the gorilla is said also to 

 help its owner in love as well as war. 



The Chimpanzee. The chimpanzee is a near neighbour of 

 the gorilla in Equatorial Africa though he appears to have 

 a more extended range. He is found in Sierra Leone and 

 in the country lying to the north of the river Congo, and 

 according to native accounts is gregarious in his habits, 

 travelling in formidable companies, who carry sticks and 

 make effective use of them. They are said to reach 

 maturity at nine or ten years of age and to attain a height 

 of from four to iive feet. Like the gorillas they have 

 immensely powerful limbs, and have been known without 

 apparent effort to break off branches of trees which a man 

 would have been powerless to bend. 



The Docility The chimpanzee differs from the gorilla in 

 ^ f tlT*" ^ ^'^ amenability to civilisation. The gorilla, 

 Chimpanzee, however young, seems incapable of being tamed ; 

 while the chimpanzee in its infancy and youth at least has 

 often been domesticated, though like most other apes, as it 

 approaches maturity, it needs to be kept under strong control. 

 Captain Brown in his " Habits and Characteristics of Animals 

 and Birds" gives the following illustration of the docility 

 and sagacity of the chimpanzee. He says : " M. de Grandpre 

 saw, on board of a vessel, a female chimpanzee, which 

 exhibited wonderful proofs of intelligence. She had learnt 

 to heat the oven ; she took great care not to let any of the 

 coals fall out, which might have done mischief in the ship; 

 and she was very accurate in observing when the oven was 

 heated to the proper degree, of which she immediately 



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