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EDITED BY JOHN D. HAMLYN. 
No. 5.— Vol. 4. 
LONDON, SEPTEMBER, 1918. 
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"JOHN DANIEL." 
By John D. Hamlyn. 
Mr. Pocock, writing the "The Field" last 
week, states : — 
The importation of a living Gorilla is at 
any time a noteworthy achievement; but in 
these days, when difficulties of transport and 
commissariat have to be reckoned with, it is 
an exceptionally surprising - occurrence. 
Nevertheless, a young male was recently 
landed at the London Docks and is now in the 
possession of Mr. J. D. Hamlyn, to whom I 
am indebted for the subjoined photograph 
and for the information that the animal was 
brought by a French officer from Cape Lopez, 
near the mouth of the Gaboon River in the 
French Congo. The boat also contained a 
few common monkeys of the genus Cerco- 
pithecus, which were picked up at various 
African ports on its way home. These I hav§ 
not seen, but I paid a special visit to inspect 
the g'orilla, and was well rewarded for the 
time and trouble. I should guess the animal 
to be about three years old, and it is without 
exception the most attractive gorilla I have 
seen, exhibiting none of the sullen apathy 
and "stand-offish" behaviour one has learnt 
to associate with these apes. It is, moreover, 
the embodiment of health and vigour, and is 
endowed with a good appetite. 
The difficulty of keeping gorillas alive 
in captivity in Europe is proverbial. Except 
for the Dublin specimen, which lived over 
three years, and the Breslau individual, which 
survived about twice that length of time, the 
duration of their caged existence has in- 
variably been a matter merely of a few weeks 
or months. Those that have been secured 
by the Zoological Society have always evinced 
from the first a complete lack of interest in 
their food and surroundings, and have suf- 
fered from such manifest depression of spirits 
that one has felt from the first that the cases 
were hopeless. With Hamlyn 's specimen it 
is quite otherwise, and if ever a gorilla held 
out hopes of doing well he is the one. 
Gorillas are restricted to the forest dis- 
tricts of Equatorial Africa, ranging from the 
Cameroons as far south as Cette Cama in the 
Congo, and eastwards into "German" E. Afri- 
ca. Quite a considerable number of so-called 
species or sub-species have been established 
by zoologists, who trust to differences in the 
shape of the skull and shades of colour. But 
it seems that we know too little about the 
range of variation in those respects with age 
to allow of the admission of more than one 
West African species, Gorilla gorilla. It is 
