4 NATURAL HISTORY IN ANECDOTE.

Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Cambodia and Hainan,
and the Siamang to Java and Sumatra.

The Gorilla, The gorilla is the largest of the ape family,
and sometimes attains to the height of six feet. It is also
the fiercest, if not the strongest, of man-shaped animals. It
belongs to the genus Troglodytes of which the chimpanzee is
the only other species, and it inhabits a somewhat limited
range of Equatorial Africa, where it makes for itself nests
of sticks and foliage, among the lower branches of trees,
and lives upon berries, nuts and fruits. Though apparently
a vegetarian the gorilla has enormous physical strength. His
arms bear much the same proportion to the size of his body
as those of man do relatively, but his lower limbs are shorter,
and have no calves, the leg growing thicker from the knee
downwards. The hands are broad, thick, and of great
length of palm, and are remarkable for their strength; the
feet, broader than those of man, and more like hands, are
very large and of great power. The gorilla uses his handg
when walking or running, but as his arms are longer than
those of other apes, and his legs shorter he stoops less than
they do in moving from place to place. The gorilla herds
in small companies, or rather families, one adult male being
the husband and father of the band. The females are much
smaller than the males.

The Ancestors he gorilla, though: rediscovered in recent
ofthe years, was apparently known to the ancients.
Boule: Hanno, a Carthaginian admiral who flourished

some five or six hundred years B.C., once sailed from
Carthage with a fleet of sixty vessels and a company of
30,000 persons, under instructions to proceed past the Pillars
of Hercules (the Straits of Gibraltar), with a view to planting
colonies on the western coast of Africa. In the course of
their travels they discovered several islands inhabited by
wild creatures with hairy bodies. “There were,” says the
ancient navigator, “many more females than males, all equally