CHAPTER XIX 



Other Kulu-Kambas — A Knotty Problem — Instinct or Reason — 

 Various Types 



\T ^HETHER the kulu-kamba is a distinct species of 

 » » ape, or only a well-marked variety of the chimpan- 

 zee, he is by far the finest representative of his genus. 

 Among those that I have seen are some very good speci- 

 mens, and the clever things that I have witnessed in them 

 are sufficient to stamp them as the highest type of all 

 apes. 



On board a small river steamer that plies the Ogowe 

 was a young female kulu that belonged to the captain. 

 Her face was not by any means handsome, and her com- 

 plexion was darker than that of any other kulu I have ever 

 seen. It was almost a coffee color. There were two or 

 three spots yet darker in shade, but not well defined in 

 outline. The dark spots looked as if they had been arti- 

 ficially put on the face. The color was not solid, but 

 looked as if dry burnt umber had been rubbed or sprinkled 

 over a surface of lighter brown. Although she was young 

 (perhaps not more than two years old), her face looked 

 almost like that of a woman of forty. Her short, flat 

 nose, big, flexible lips, protruding jaws, and prominent 

 arches over the eves, with a low, receding forehead, con- 

 spired to make her look like a certain type of human 



