CHAPTER XIII 



OTHER KULU-KAMBAS 



Whether the kulu-kamba is a distinct species of 

 ape, or only a well-marked variety of the chim- 

 panzee, he is by far the finest representative of his 

 genus. Among those that I have seen are some 

 very good specimens, and the clever things that I 

 have witnessed them do 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 complexion was the darkest of 

 any kulu I have ever seen. It was almost a coffee- 

 colour. There were two or three spots much 

 darker in shade, but not well defined in outline. 

 The dark spots looked as if they had been artificially 

 put on the face. The colour 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, fiat nose, big, flexible lips, protruding 

 jaws and prominent arches over the eyes, with a low 



