CASSELL’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
GROUP Oi’ APES AND MONKEYS, AND A LEMUR. 
CLASS MAMMALIA. 
ORDER I— QIJADRUMANA.— THE APES AND MONKEYS. 
CHAPTER I. 
INTRODUCTION— THE MAN-SHAPED APES— 1. THE GORILLA (Troglodytes Gorilla ) . 
The World of Monkeys, and its Division into great Groups— Distinction between the Old World and New World Monkeys - 
Glassification of Monkeys The Gorilla, Ancient and Modern Stories about it — Investigations of Savage and Du 
Chaillu— General Description— The Head, Brain, Teeth, Taste, Smell, and Voice— The Air Sacs, and Ear- The Limbs 
and Muscles— Method of Climbing-Diet -Hunting the Gorilla— Attempts to Capture Alive— A Tame Gorilla. 
TF one of eacli kind of the Apes and Monkeys which are now living on the globe could be collected 
and placed in a large zoological garden, and if those which lived in former ages, and whose skeletons 
have been discovered by geologists, could be brought to life, and added to the whole, they would 
certainly form a very amusing and remarkable assemblage. What endless fun there would be, what 
scamperings, skirmishes, and quarrels would take place ; how they would grin, chatter, and pull tails 
all the live-long day \ and as evening began, how some, which had been quiet spectators before, would 
commence howling, and how others would rush about amongst their tired and sleepy companions, 
with noiseless bounds until the return of daylight ! 
If each of these representative Monkeys could give an account of itself, whence it had come, 
how it lived in its native forests and woods, and what it did with itself all day, a most interesting and 
