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NATURAL HISTORY. 
Gaboon River was tlie Ingrna, This is an animal like the Orang-Utan, but much exceeding it in 
size, being five feet high and four feet across the shoulders. Its paw was said to be even more dispro- 
portioned in its breadth, and one blow of it is said to be fatal. It is commonly seen by the natives 
THE MALE GORILLA. 
when they travel to Kaybe, lurking in the bush to destroy passengers, not to eat them, for it feeds 
principally on wild honey, which abounds.” 
Sometimes, the natives assert, when a company of villagers are moving rapidly through the 
shades of the forest, they become aware of the presence of the formidable Ape by the sudden 
