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Show CANNOT BE TAKEN ALIVE Gorillas Will Fight to the Death, and Are to Be Feared, Even When Mortally Wounded. The most perilous Job that any ono can undertake In the Jungle Is the CSP tare of fuUgrown gorilla, it is said that no gorilla has ever been enptured alive after he was full grown. He would be a bold man who would attempt at-tempt such a feat, (iorlllas fear nothing. noth-ing. Kven when mortally wounded they show an agility, strength and ferocity fe-rocity which Is astonishing A famous traveler once Stated that It would take 100 men to hold down a gorilla with any degree of safety. On the other hand, nil other ape- are said to be pathetically easy to capture. cap-ture. The usual method Is for a trapper trap-per to Heat himself where he Is certain to be ohserved by these creatures arid pretend to drink from a bottle of crude spirits. When be Is sure that ho has been observed, he leaves the bottle and gOM away. The moment his back Is turned the monkeys rush to appease their curiosity curios-ity concerning the contents of the bottle. bot-tle. They like the taste of the spirits, and quarrel among themselves for It till the bottle has been emptied. TheV are soon overcome by the Intoxicant, and the trapper returns and gathers them in. |