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methodic efforts to determine the exact boundary of 

 the habitat and the real habits of these two apes, I 

 feel at liberty to speak with an air of authority. I 

 have acquired my knowledge on the subject by going; 

 to their own country and living in their own jungle, 

 and I have thus obtained their secrets from first 

 hands. With due respect to those who write books 

 and speak freely upon subjects of which they know 

 but little, I beg leave to suggest that if the authors 

 had gone into the jungle and lived among those 

 animals instead of consulting others who know less 

 than themselves about it, many of them would have 

 written in a very different strain. I do not mean 

 this as a rebuke to any one, but seeing the same old 

 stories repeated year after year, and knowing that 

 there is no truth in them, I feel it incumbent as a 

 duty to challenge them. 



I believe that in the future it will be shown that 

 there are two types of gorilla as distinct from each 

 other as the two chimpanzees now known. This 

 second variety of gorilla will be found between the 

 third and fifth parallels south and east of the delta 

 district, but west of the Congo. I believe it was 

 represented in the ape Mafuka." My researches 

 among the apes have been confined chiefly to the 

 two kinds heretofore described, but I have seen and 

 studied in a superficial way the orang and the gibbon. 

 I am not prepared as yet to discuss the habits of 

 those two apes, but as they form a part of the group 

 of anthropoids we cannot dismiss them without 

 honourable mention. 



