240 Mr., Mrs., and Master Gorilla . 
young ones are taken by means of shooting the 
mothers with poisoned arrows, and the young 
ones, hanging to their mothers, are easily taken.” 
I have italicized the passages which show that 
the traditions still preserved on the coast, about 
the Pongo and the Chimpanzee, date from old. 
Surely M. du Chaillu does grave injustice to this 
good old Briton, who was not a literary man, by 
declaring his stories to be mere travellers’ tales, 
“ untrue of any of the great apes of Africa.” 
Battel had evidently not seen the animal, and with 
his negro informants he confounds the gorilla and 
the “ bushman; ” yet he possibly alludes to a 
species which has escaped M. du Chaillu and 
other modern observers. 
Mr. W. Winwood Reade (“ Savage Africa,” 
chap, xix.) has done good service by reprinting 
the letter of a Bristol trader on the west coast of 
Africa, first published 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,” evi¬ 
dently the Njina, Njf, Nguyla, or gorilla; and thirdly 
is the “ Chimpenza,” our Chimpanzee, a word cor¬ 
rupted from the Congoese Kampenzy, including the 
Nchigo, the Kulu-Kamba, and other Troglodytes. 
I have heard of this upright-walking Mpongo 
