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Mr., Mrs., and Master Gorilla. 
at Loango and other places on the west coast of 
Africa, where the Njrna 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 extraordinary apes in the woods ; they are 
called by the blacks Quojas morrow , and by the 
Indians Orang-outang , that is satyrs, or woodmen. 
This creature seems to be the very satyr 
of the ancients, written of by Pliny and others, 
and is said to set upon women in the woods, and 
sometimes upon armed men.” Amongst these 
animals he evidently includes the chimpanzee, as 
may be seen by his reference to the Royal Ex¬ 
change, London. 
In 1776 the philosophical Abbe Proyart, in his 
excellent “ History of Loango,” tells us ( vide 
the chapter upon animals) that “ there are in the 
forests baboons four feet high; the negroes affirm 
that, when they are hard pushed, they come down 
from the trees with sticks in their hands to defend 
themselves against those who are hunting them, 
and that very often they chase their pursuers. 
The missionaries never witnessed this singularity.” 
According to the people, gorillas five or six feet 
tall have been seen as lately as 1840 at “ Looboo 
Wood,” a well-known spot which we shall presently 
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