242 Mr ., Mrs., and Master Gorilla . 
sight, about three miles inland from the centre of 
Loango Bay. 
And now the long intervals between travellers’ 
accounts wax shorter. The well-known writer, 
Bowdich, before quoted, published, in 1819, his 
hearsay description of the “ Ingena,” garnished 
with the usual native tales. I had the honour 
of receiving an account of his discovery from his 
widow, the late Mrs. Lee, who was held the 
“ mother of African travellers,” and whose energy 
and intelligence endured to the last,—if memory 
serves me, she referred to some paper upon the 
subject, written by herself about 1825. Towards 
the end of 1846, the Rev. Mr. Wilson, founder of 
the Gaboon Mission, and proto-grammarian of its 
language, obtained two skulls, which were fol¬ 
lowed by skeletons, fragmentary and perfect. He 
sent No. 1, measuring, when alive, 5^ feet in 
height, and 4 feet across the shoulders, to the 
“Natural History Society” of Boston. He evi¬ 
dently has a right to boast that he was “ the first 
to call the attention of naturalists to the ‘ Njena.’ ” 
His 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-LIilaire, reviving Linnaeus, 
had proposed in 1812. In 1847, Dr. Savage pub¬ 
lished in the “Journal of Natural History” (Bos¬ 
ton) the result of his careful inquiries about the 
