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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION 
STRANGERS IN THE CAMP. 
CHAPTER Y. 
Me., Mrs., and Master Gorilla. 
The following interesting account of the great ape, 
known as the gorilla, is taken from the same graphic pen. 
The reader will kindly bear in mind, when perusing 
my notes upon the gorilla, that, as in the case of the 
Fa n cannibalism described by the young French tra- 
veller, my knowledge of the anthropoid is confined to 
the maritime region ; moreover, that it is hearsay, fate 
having prevented my nearer acquaintance with the 
“ape of contention.” 
The discovery must be assigned to Admiral Hanno of 
Carthage, who, about B.c. 500, first in the historical 
period slew the Troglodytes, and carried home their 
spoils. 
The next traveller who described the great Troglo- 
dytes of equatorial Africa was the well-known Andrew 
Battel, of Leigh, Essex (1589 to 1600); and his 
description deserves quoting. “ Here (Mayombo) are 
two kinds of monsters common to these woods. The 
largest of them is called Pongo in their language, and 
