20 MAMMALS

both being natives of Western and Central Africa.
The genus is known as Axthropopithecus, which
means the man-monkey. Chimpanzee itself should
really be written chimpa n’zee the n’see, being the
word now rendered as n’tyigo, the chzmpa being
descriptive of the sort of n’tyigo the natives wished
to distinguish. The generic name used to be 7vog-
lodytes, or ‘dwellers in caves, but this has gone the
way of Quadrumana and other familiar terms, as
being misleading when insisted upon too closely.
The chimpanzee is, in fact, not a cave-dweller but a
tree-dweller, and his home is a sort of platform, with
or without a roof, which he makes in the trees for the
shelter of his family. ‘ With regard to the arboreal
habits of the gorilla, writes Dr. Garner, ‘I think they
are somewhat misunderstood. He is a good climber
and evidently spends much of his time in trees; but
from an examination of his foot it is evident that he
was designed for terrestrial habits. The grasping
power of his foot is much less than that of the chim-
panzee, and is not at all to be compared in this respect
with his own hand; and all men whom I have
consulted upon this point agree with me that he
spends most of his life on the ground. During the
time that I kept a young gorilla in the bush with me,
I had also a chimpanzee ; and it was the daily habit
of the chimpanzee to climb about in the bushes,
while the gorilla rarely ever ascended one. I always
kept a supply of food for them where they could easily
secure it themselves at any time ; but the gorilla would
seldom climb even a few feet from the ground to
get himself a plantain, and when he did so, always