| Show PAUL DV FIR FIRST S T MEETING A GORILLA paul du chaillou the noted african explorer who recently died thus de scribes in his adventures in equatorial africa his first meeting with a gorilla suddenly he says an im mense mele gorilla advanced out of the woods straight toward us and gave vent as he came up to a terrible howl 0 of f rage as much as to say I 1 am tired of being pursued and will face you it was a lone male the kind which are always the most ferocious this fellow made the woods resound with his roar which Is really an awful sound resembling the rolling and mut bering of distant thunder he was about twenty yards off when we first saw him we at once gathered to gether and I 1 was about to take aim and bring him down where he stood when my most trusted man malao balao nen stopped me saying in a whisper not time yet we stood therefore in silence gun in hand the gorilla looked at us for a minute or so out of his evil gray eyes then beat his breast with his gigantic arms and what arms he had then gave another howl of defiance and ad danced upon us how horrible he looked I 1 shall never forget it again be he stopped not more than fifteen yards i away still mallonen Mala onen said not yet good gracious what Is to become of us it if our guns miss fire or it if we only wound the great beast again the gorilla made an advance upon us now he was not twelve wards off I 1 could see plainly his ferocious face it was distorted with rage his huge teeth were ground against each other so that we could hear the sound the skin of the forehead was drawn forward and back rapidly which made his hair move up and down and gave a truly devilish ex pres slon to his hideous face once more the most horrible monster ever created by almighty god gave a roar which seemed to shake the woods like thunder I 1 could really feel the earth trembling under toy my feet the gorilla looking us in the eye and beating his breast advanced again don t fire too soon said malao balao nen if you don t kill him he will kill you this time he came within eight yards of us before he stopped I 1 was breathing fast with excitement as I 1 watched the huge beast mallonen Mala onen only said steady as the gorilla came up when he stopped mallonen Mala onen said now and before he could utter the roar for which be he was open ing his mouth three musket balls were in his body he fell dead almost with out a struggle |
