244 Mr., Mrs., and Master Gorilla. 
stick is fastened under the chin to prevent the 
child biting. I should prefer, for trapping old as 
well as young, the way in which bears are caught 
by the North American backwoodsman,—a hol¬ 
lowed log, with some fruit, plantains for instance, 
floating in a quant, stiff, of sugar, well sugared 
and narcotized. 
Concerning the temper of these little captives, 
there are heroic differences of opinion. Mr. Ford 
records the “implacable desperation” of a juve¬ 
nile which was brought to the Mission. It was 
taken very young, and kept four months, and 
many means were used to tame it; but it was so 
incorrigible, that it bit me an hour before it died.” 
Yet, in face of this and other evidence, Mr. W. Win- 
wood Reade, writing to the “ Athenaeum ” (Sep¬ 
tember 7, 1862), asserts that “the young gorilla in 
captivity is not savage.” “ Joe Gorilla,” M. du 
Chaillu’s brat, was notoriously fierce and unman¬ 
ageable. The Rev. Mr. Walker, of Baraka, had 
a specimen, which he describes as a very tractable 
pupil; and my excellent friend Major Noeliy White, 
better known as “ Governor White,” of Corisco 
Island, brought to Fernando Po a baby Njfna, which 
in its ways and manners much resembled an old 
woman. Mr. R. B. N. Walker became the happy 
godfather of two youngsters, who were different in 
disposition as Valentine and Orson. One, which 
measured 18 inches high, and died in 1861, was 
