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four hours' walk from my cage, and his body was at once 

 brought to me. A good idea of his size can be obtained 

 by reference to another cut given herewith. This cut is 

 copied from a photograph taken by me. It shows some 

 natives in the act of skinning the gorilla. 



In this picture the gorilla is sitting flat on the sand ; his 

 body is limp and is somewhat shorter than it was in life. 

 Yet it can be seen that the top of his head is higher than 

 the hip of the man who is holding him. In the foreground, 

 on the left of the gorilla, sits the man who killed him. He 

 is sitting on a log and is thereby a little more elevated than 

 the gorilla. It did not occur to me to place them side by 

 side in order to make a comparison. As he sits, the body 

 and head of this gorilla measure nearly four feet from the 

 base of the spinal column to the top of the head. I had no 

 means of weighing him, but made an estimate by lifting 

 him. I estimate that he weighed at least two hundred 

 and forty pounds. He was not an old specimen, but com- 

 paring the skull with No. 7, in which the crests are well 

 developed, it is found to be larger, and other things point to 

 the conclusion that he was older than No. 7. 



I am aware that one specimen does not of itself establish 

 anything, but in this case it shows that the male gorilla 

 does not always develop the crest. The head of this speci- 

 men was surmounted by the red crown which I have else- 

 where described. No. 1, which is the skull of my pet, 

 Othello, had the same mark. He was captured near the 

 place where No. 6 was killed. 



No. 2 is the skull of a female nearly four years old. She 

 had the same mark. She was also captured in the same 



