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In the Volcanic Region 
SO closely that I could have touched him by stretching out my 
arm. Suddenly he caught the scent, and tore away trumpeting, 
taking the others along with him, and the whole herd rushed 
madly past. 
Wiese had in the meantime gone back to Kissenji on urgent 
business, and letters called for my return there also. So we 
shifted our camp in the direction of Kissenji, into the domain 
of the chieftain Chuma. 
The motive that led us just there was principally the assertion 
of the Batwa that it was the haunt of the imfpindMy the name by 
which the gorilla was known at Mgahinga. The truth of this 
peculiar story had, of course, to be tested. It was important to 
determine whether the imfundu was another form of gorilla, or 
whether it was another breed of the anthropomorphous ape. I 
may state straightaway that the latter was the case, and it 
proved to be a large kind of chimpanzee, the tschego. So the 
name imfundu served for both. 
We found by observation that the imfunduy gorillas as well as 
tschegos, haunted the margins of the upper forest. At Mgahinga 
we found fresh droppings, and trails on the margin of the 
bamboo and upper forest boundaries, though in the interior we 
never observed any signs of their existence. 
Little is known so far as to the habits of the tschego. We 
were able to verify with certainty its custom of using trees for 
a sleeping place at night, and that the favourites were the lofty 
podocarpus—the umufu and the mutoie —which are free from 
branches up to the crown, obviously because they afford an exten¬ 
sive view and also the greatest safety. In the morning the 
tschegos, who live in families of five to eight, leave their sleeping- 
trees somewhere between seven and nine o’clock, letting themselves 
down to the ground with the greatest nimbleness, to feed on 
young bamboo shoots. The tschego is not exactly fastidious in 
his food. The Batwa told us that he is fond of leaves, fruit- 
skins, blossoms, and tender tree-shoots, though as far as my own 
observation went, he confined himself to the sapotaceae (mutoie). 
