THE CHIMPANZEE. 
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without a spear is nearly safe from him. Manyuema say, ‘ Soko is a man, and nothing bad in him.’ 
They live in communities of about ten, each having his own female ; an intruder from another camp is 
beaten off with their fists and loud yells. If one tries to seize the female of another, he is caught on 
the ground, and all unite in boxing and biting the offender. A male often carries a child, especially if 
they are passing from one patch of forest to another over a grassy space ; he then gives it to the mother.” 
The book contains a portrait of a young Soko, which we have reproduced on page 47, and it 
shows a short-armed, weak-legged, long-eared creature ; and in the engraving on page 48, the adults 
which are being hunted are certainly very much shorter than the natives who are killing them. All 
that can be said, then, is that possibly the Soko is a kind of Troglodyte, greatly resembling the kind 
we have next to notice; but its geographical range is most interesting. Its being found so many 
hundreds of miles from the Sierra del Crystal, and beyond the woods of the coast-living Chimpanzees, 
would appear to prove that formerly there was forest and jungle far away to the east, where there are 
now plains, rivers, and lakes with much forest land. 
THE TRUE CHIMPANZEE * 
The name Chimpanzee has sometimes been given to all the great Apes just described, but reference 
has been made, in considering some points in their anatomy and habits, to a particular animal which 
bears this name. This one comes next to them in the descending order of the scale of beings, and com- 
pletes the number of the kinds of these man-shaped Apes of Equatorial Africa. It is the animal, the 
young of which have frequently been brought to England, where they have been celebrated for their 
gentle fun, romping play, good climbing, and their ability to imitate many human habits — clothes- 
wearing, tobacco- smoking, and tea-drinking especially. It is the Chimpanzee of Chimpanzees, the young 
# Troglodytes Nig-y.% 
the CHIMPANZEE. (From a Sketch by Wolf } in the possession of the Zoological Society.) 
