194 GORILLAS AND CHIMPANZEES 



follow that he lives in that country. The Orunga 

 tribe have a name for lion, but there is not such a 

 beast within 400 miles of their country, and not one 

 of that tribe ever saw one. 



A vast number of specimens have been secured at 

 Gaboon, but they have been brought there from far 

 away, because it is the chief town of the colony, and 

 there are more white men there to buy them than 

 elsewhere. It is quite impossible for a stranger to 

 ascertain what part a specimen is brought from. 

 The native hunter will not tell the truth lest some one 

 else should find the game and thus deprive him of 

 its capture and sale. 



I once saw a specimen at Cameroon, and was 

 told that it had been captured in that valley fifty 

 miles from the coast ; but I hunted up its history and 

 found with absolute certainty that it was captured 

 near Mayumba, 200 miles south of Gaboon. Even 

 with the greatest care in hunting up the history of 

 specimens one may fail, and often does in tracing 

 it to its true source, but every one so far, that I 

 have followed up, has been brought somewhere 

 within the limits I have laid down. Contrary to the 

 statement of some authorities that these apes "have 

 never been seen on the coast " since 1852, the great- 

 est number of them are found near the coast. I do 

 not mean to say that they sit on the sand along the 

 beach, or bathe in the surf, but they live in the jungle 

 of that part. 



Along the Lower Congo the gorilla is known only 

 in name, and scores of the natives do not know even 



