| Show 0 MUSEUM HAS PRIZE GORIlLA Monster of the Woods Slain by Ge German Gee Ger- man man Traveler There has just been placed on exhibition exhibition in inthe the museum at Hamburg the biggest known specimen of gorilla It was shot in the Cameroon Cameroon Came Came- roon Territory in West Africa After Atter much difficulty It was removed to Hamburg stuffed mounted and placed on exhibition It measures 6 feet 10 inches from the crown of the head to the middle to toe toe and across from middie middle mid mid- die dle fing to middle finger 9 feet 3 33 Inches It w was s largely a matter of chance that the commer commercial lal traveler Herr of Schwerin shot this gigantic gorilla When the natives came to the agency agency at at Cameroon with stories of the big monkey Herr did not take much stock in their yarns but when the native troops started out to I hunt hun for the gorilla the German traveler traveler trav trav- eler took his carbine and went along After some hours' hours travel they came to the patch of bush where the gorilla was supposed to bo hiding The natives natives na na- tives surrounded the bush and suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly the beasts beast's head appeared Herr made a path through the bush with his bush knife nd when within range rang took air and fired It was a lucky shot for the beast at once fell with the bul bullet et through his head He fell with a crash and was almost instantly dead It waS was not an easy matter to remove the gorilla to the coast and thence to Hamburg but there it is now almost lifelike in appearance appearance appearance ap ap- so carefully was the mounting mounting mount mount- ing and stuffing done Alongside is the gigantic skeleton Since the gorilla gorilla gor gor- illa llla was placed on exhibition the II l lr e r r 4 l crowds at the museum have been enormous enormous enormous enor enor- and the comments upon its marked resemblance to the human species have been general The gorilla gor gorilla gor- gor illa might have something to to say on this subject if It alive |
