CHAPTER XVII 



OTHER APES 



In the various records that constitute the history of 

 these apes are found many novel and incoherent 

 tales, but all of them appear to rest upon some basis 

 of truth. In order to arrive at some more definite 

 knowledge concerning them, we may review the 

 data at our command. The first record in the annals 

 of the world that alludes to these man-like apes, is 

 that of Hanno, who made a voyage from Carthage to 

 the west coast of Africa, nearly 500 years before the 

 Christian era. He described an ape which was found 

 in the locality about Sierra Leone. It is singular that 

 the description which he gave of those apes should 

 coincide so fully with those known of the present 

 day, but to my mind it is quite certain that the ape 

 of which he gives an account was neither a gorilla 

 nor chimpanzee, nor is there anything to show that 

 either of these ever occupied that part of the world, 

 or that any similar type has done so. It is clear from 

 the evidence that the ape described by him was not 

 an anthropoid, but was the large, dog-faced monkey 

 technically called cynocephalus. These animals are 

 found all along the north coast of the Gulf of Guinea^ 



