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VERTEBRATA. 
THE GOKILLA. 
Consequently, they were IcillecL Their skins Being taken off, were carried to Carthage, and hung 
up in the temple of Saturn. Ilerc, according to Pliny, two of them remained as late as 146 b, c, 
when Carthage was taken and destroyed by the Romans. 
The name given by Hanno to the savages of which we have been speaking was Gorilla, and as 
it is now believed that he referred to the animal which we are describing, that title has been be- 
stowed upon it. Our knowledge of it is yet very imperfect. This is chiefly derived from Dr. Sav- 
age, an American Protestant missionary, stationed on the Gaboon River, in Western Africa. From 
his account, it appears that they live on vegetables, and build huts of sticks and leaves, supported 
by the branches of trees. Their habits are ferocious, and instead of flying from man, as is gener- 
ally the case with the chimpanzee, they boldly give him battle. They are said to utter a cry of 
kha-ah, kha-ah, sharp and prolonged. Their huge jaws open widely at each expiration : the lower 
