246 Mr ., Mrs., and Master Gorilla. 
The late Count Lavradio informed me that he 
had heard of it on the banks of the lower Con^o 
River (south latitude 9 0 ), and the “ Soko,” which 
Dr. Livingstone identifies with the Gorilla, ex¬ 
tends to the Lualaba or Upper Congo, in the 
regions immediately west of the Tanganyika Lake. 
His friends have suggested that the “Soko” 
might have been a chimpanzee, but the old travel¬ 
ler was, methinks, far above making the mistake. 
The Yorubans at once recognize the picture; they 
call the anthropoid “Naki;” and they declare 
that, when it seizes a man, it tears the fingers 
asunder. So M. du Chaillu (chapter vi.) men¬ 
tions, in the Mpongwe report, that the Njina 
tears off the toe-nails and the finger-nails of his 
human captives. We should not believe so scan¬ 
dalous an assertion without detailed proof; it is 
hardly fair to make the innocent biped as need¬ 
lessly cruel as man. It is well known to the 
natives of the Old Calabar River by the name of 
“ Omon.” In i860, the brothers Jules and Am- 
broise Poncet travelled with Dr. Peney to Ab 
Kuka, the last of their stations near the head of 
the Luta Nzige (Albert Nyanza) Lake, and Dr. 
Peney “ brought back the hand of the first gorilla 
which had been heard of” (“ Ocean Highways,” 
p. 482—February, 1874). The German Expedi¬ 
tion (1873) reports Chicambo to be a gorilla 
country; that the anthropoid is found one day’s 
