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MAMMALIA. 
Yet, in the external resemblance of the Gorilla to Man there is 
something startling. M. du Chaillu confesses that he has never 
killed a Gorilla without experiencing real uneasiness. He could 
never bring himself to taste the flesh of these animals, because he 
looked upon doing so as an act of cannibalism. 
“ I have never been able / 5 he writes, “ before a slain Gorilla to 
maintain that indifference, much less experience the triumphant 
joy of a hunter. It always seemed as if a fellow- creature, a 
monstrous one it is true, hut still having about it something 
human, was my victim. It was a delusion ; I knew it, hut yet 
the feeling was stronger than myself.” 
These moral impressions, however, can avail nothing against 
the results of the comparisons and anatomical investigations which 
place the Gorilla far below our species in the scale of being. 
Genus Chimpanzee . — Of all known Monkeys, the Chimpanzee 
( Troglodytes niger) is certainly that which, in its gait, its ana- 
tomical organisation, and the vivacity of its intelligence, comes 
nearest to the human species. In the first place, its arms are not 
so long as those of the anthropomorphous apes of which we have 
been speaking, and scarcely descend below the knee. Its hands 
and feet more resemble the types of perfection realised in Man — a 
circumstance which renders a vertical attitude more easy than in 
the other Monkeys of the same group. A vertical position is not 
at all times, however, its ordinary attitude ; and it is only with 
the aid of a stick that it can maintain itself erect for any length 
of time. Lastly, in the Chimpanzee, as in Man, we observe the 
presence of a calf, slightly developed, it is true, hut sufficiently 
characterised to justify this Monkey’s holding the rank it does 
among the Quadrumana. 
The Chimpanzee inhabits the same regions as the Gorilla ; the 
dense forests of intertropical Africa are the places where it is 
exclusively met. Yet it is rare everywhere, except about the 
Gaboon and in the neighbourhood of Cape Lopez. In a physical, 
and more particularly in a moral, point of view, it differs much 
from the Gorilla. Its muscular power, although very remarkable, 
is less extraordinary than that of the Gorilla, and it never resorts 
to it except in cases of absolute necessity. If it finds itself in the 
presence of its pursuer, and it sees any possibility of escaping from 
danger by flight, it does not stay to offer resistance for a single 
