Show the gorilla in ili Dick enss hlll the fie year round we find the following description of tins this animal abich is is said to be most closely allied in structure to the human form of any of the brute creation the gorilla is is of the av average he height ht of man mail five feet six aix in inches C hes his h brain case islow ision 13 and narrow arid and as aa the I 1 fore part of the sk skull I 1 is la lush high and there is a very prom prominent anent ridge above tile eyes the top of the head is perfectly flat and the brow v w ith its thick in t forms forma a scow ling penthouse over the eyes couple mch this a deep lead colored skin much wrinkled rin kled a prominent jaw with u ith the canine teeth in the males of huge size bize a aie le ceding chin sand and we have an exaggeration ge ration of tile the lowest and most forbidding type of human physiognomy tile the rieck neck la a short the head pokes for ard the ile relative proportions of tile the body and limbs tire are nearer those of man yet they are of more ungainly aspect act than in in any other of tile the brute kind Louya long shapeless hape less arms thick and aid mis muscular cular alt ith scarce c arce any diminution of size siz deserving the name of wrist for at the smallest they are fourteen inches round while a strong mans wrist is riot above eight a wide thick hand the palm long and the lingers fingers short am swollen ollen a and d gouty looking capacious chest broad shoulders dr legs also thick and shapeless destitute of calf and very eusula musula r ye yet short a hand like foot w with ith a thumb t to it tt i of huge dimensions arid and portentous pow power er of giamp 1 no wonder the lion led skulks before this forster mor ster and even the elephant is baffled by his malicious cunning ac and air strength editth the te teeth et la indicate a vegetable diet die t but it the repast is sometimes varied with eggs or a brood of young birds the thief chief reason of his enmity to the elephant appears to lobe be not that it intentionally ir him but merely that it shares his taste for certain favorite fruits and when from his N watchtower watch atch tower in in the upper branches of f a tree ilie he es the elephant helping himself 11 to these delicacies he be steals along the bough and striking its sensitive a ve proboscis a violent blow with the duo c ab with which he hels is almost always at ay s armed drives off the startled giant trumpeting shrilly with rage and pain towards the negroes the gorilla seems to cL clarish crish an implacable hatred he be attacks t hes b en quite unprovoked if ifa a party of blacks appi approach unconsciously within range of a tree ree daunted laun ted by one of these wood demons a sw inong gnp ns rapidly down dow n to the low er branch e ehe he lie cl itches with his thumbed foot at the nearest of cf them his big green e eyes flash with rage his hair stands on en end dyess an and the skin kin a above the eyes drawn rapidly up a and d down gives ives a fiendish scowl sometimes sometime s dur during i ng their heir excursions in quest of ivory ivor in those gloomy forests the natives will first discover he proximity of a gorilla by the sudden adde mysterious ms t erious disappearance of one of their com Parl parlous cus the brute angling for him with his us horrible foot dropped from a tree while his us at strong a arms s grasp it firmly stretches do down r tile his faug huge e hind bind hand seizes seizes the hapless 4 wretch by thi th throat draws him up into the boughs and as soon as his struggles have ceased drops him down a strangled corpse ca A tree is is the gorillas sleeping place by night his pleasant abode hy by day and his hia castle castie of defence from that col coigne agne of advant adi ant age lie he waits his bis toe foe should the latter be fool hardy ardy or foolish enough to pursue no full grown gorilla has ever been taken alive A bold negro the leader of an elephant hunting hai ng expedition elpe was offered a hundred dollars for a live gorilla 1 ia it ou give me the weight of galil yonder hill in iii goldi gold could not do di it its he said 11 nevertheless he be has his good qualities in in a domestic domed tic point of view he be is an amiable and exemplary husband arid and father watching over his young family wih affectionate solicitude and exerting in in their defence his utmost utmos 5 strength tren th arid and ferocity the mothers show that devotion devotion to their young oung ili in tinier lime of danger g c r m which lich is the most universal of instincts the gorilla constructs himself a manug snug hammock out of the long tough at slender rider stems of parasitic plants an and d lines it with the broad dried trones frones of palms or v with ith long grass a sort of bed surely not to be despised in the leafy branches of a tree tre B by bal day he sits on oil a bough leaning his big back dal a against cinat the trunk owing to which habits habit elderly grillas bee become 0 me rather bald in in those regions |