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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION 
colleague, Dr. Thomas Savage, and Professor Jeffries 
Wyman called the new animal by the old name of 
gorilla, suffixing it to the “ Troglodytes” which Geoffroy 
de Saint-Hilaire, reviving Linnaeus, had proposed in 
1812. In 1847, Dr. Savage published in the “ Journal 
of Natural History ” (Boston) the result of his careful 
inquiries about the “ Enge-ena ” and the “ Enche-eko.” 
In 1852, this information was supplemented by Dr. 
Ford, also of the Gaboon Mission, with a “ Paper on 
DU CHAILLU’S FIRST GORILLA- 
die Gorilla,” published in the “ Transactions of the 
Philadelphian Academy of Sciences.” 
M. du Chaillu first had the honour of slaying the 
gorilla in its native wilds. I saw his trophies in the 
United States in 1859 ; and the sensation which they 
subsequently created in London (1861-1862) is too 
recent to require notice. Unfortunately the specimens 
were mutilated and imperfect. Mr. R. B. N. Walker, 
agent of Messrs. Hatton and Cookson at the Gaboon 
River, was the first to send home a young specimen 
