THE CHIMPANZEE. 11

country. I saw his maimed arm and he repeated the same story.”
Then one of the men spoke up: ‘If we kill a gorilla to-morrow,
I should like to have a part of the brain for a fetich.
Nothing makes a man so brave as to have a fetich of
gorilla’s brain. That gives a man a strong heart.’ Chorus (of
those who remained awake) ‘Yes; that gives a man a strong
heart.’” A fetich of the brain of the gorilla is said also to
help its owner in love as well’ as war. es

The Chimpanzee. The chimpanzee is a near neighbour of
the gorilla in Equatorial Africa though he appears to have
a more extended range. He is found in Sierra Leone and
in the country lying to the north of the river Congo, and
according to native accounts is gregarious in his habits,
travelling in formidable companies, who carry sticks and
make effective use of them. They are said to reach
maturity at nine or ten years of age and to attain a height
of from four to five feet. Like the gorillas they have
immensely powerful limbs, and have been known without
apparent effort to break off branches of trees which a man
would have been powerless to bend.
The Docility The chimpanzee differs from the gorilla in
es his amenability to civilisation. The gorilla,
Chimpanzee. however young, seems incapable of being tamed ;
while the chimpanzee in its infancy and youth at least has
often been domesticated, though like most other apes, as it
approaches maturity, it needs to be kept under strong control.
Captain Brown in his “ Habits and Characteristics of Animals
and Birds” gives the following illustration of the docility
and sagacity of the chimpanzee. He says: “M. de Grandpré
saw, on board of a vessel, a female chimpanzee, which
exhibited wonderful proofs of intelligence. She had learnt
to heat the oven; she took great care not to let any of the
coals fall out, which might have done mischief in the ship;
and she was very accurate in observing when the oven was
heated to the preper degree, of which she immediately