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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
Mr. W. Winwood Reade (“ Savage Africa,” cliap. xix.) 
lias done good service by reprinting the letter of a 
Bristol trader on the west coast of Africa, first pub- 
lished by Lord Monboddo (“ Origin and Progress of 
Language,” vol. i. p. 281, 1774 to 1792). Here we 
find distinct mention of three anthropoid apes. The 
first is the “Impungu” (or pongo?), which walks 
upright, and is from seven to nine feet high. The 
second is the “ Itsena,” evidently the Njrna, Nji, 
Nguyla, or gorilla ; and thirdly is the “ Chimpenza,” 
FOOTPRINTS OF THE GORILLA. 
our Chimpanzee, a word corrupted from the Congoese 
Kampenzy, including the Nchigo, the Kulu-Kamba, 
and other Troglodytes. I have heard of this upright- 
walking Mpongo at Loango and other places on the 
west coast of Africa, where the Njfna is familiarly 
spoken of, and it is not, methinks, impossible that an 
ape even larger than the gorilla may yet be found. 
James Barbot ( ££ A Voyage to Congo River,” 
Churchill, vol. v. p. 512) tells us in 1700 that the 
“ kingdom of Angola, or Dongo, produces many such 
