Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-07-10
THE GORILLA IN HIS NATIVE wuDs

The volume OF adventures in Africa, Just published in
| LONDON by Our cOuutIymaD, Duchsilu. among other
highly interesting descriptions Of life in Wessrn Africa
giVes trapic she ehes Of tho gorilla Ia his
wds Tha WHAT /, ity' is a decidedly formidable iel-
low. We gise rae. relating his fret experience
| with the gorilla
THIN tue und.brash swayed rapidly Just ahead, and
presently befare stood ~ immense male gorilla. lie
had gone through the jange his all ourS, hut when
he party he srced hGlsef aud loo ked ua bold
ly 10 the face He stood about dcz yads from w.
and gh, think shall lever forget. Nearly six
feet high Tue proved four inches shorer) with immense
body huge chest, and grea: musclar arms with fereeg
2larng, large deep gray eyes aud helth expression
Of face, which seemed 10 Ike nightmare vision
thus God before U.s. this king Of the African forest
He afraid OF He stood there ard beat his
breast with his huge fists till resounded ike immense
bass drum, which is Their mode Of ofsrng defiance,
meantime giving vent 10 roar after roar.
The OF the gorilla ia the singular and awful
noise heard in these African woods 1t begins with
sharp bark, like angry dog, then gldes deep
ss roll which literally aud closely resembles the roll Of
dissnt thunder along the sky, for which have some
times been tempted 10 take it where did not the
animal So deepis it. that II seems to proceed less from
The mouth aud throat THAI from the deep chest and vast
| psuneh.
His EYES began 10 flash Hercer FIRE stood notion
less the defensive and the Of short hair which
stands his forehead began to witch rapidly up and
down. while his poserful faugs were shown he again
siGt iorth thuuderous AGd truly be lc-
ed me Of lothing but some heish dream Creatures
being Of that bideous order, halfman, hsl.beast xt
fed pictured by old artists ia representations Of
the Internal reg;ous He advanced lew steps-then
stopped TO utter that hideou, sgsin--advanced
again. aad finally stopped when at distance Of abou,
ak yards from Ard here, just no began another
OF his roars beating his breast IN rage we fred and kill
| cd Linn.
With groan which had something terribly human in
il and yet fuof bruiishnsss he fell forward bis
face The bcdy shook convusyey Tor few n.iautes,
the limb. moved about III struggling wsy and then ell
quet-death had done its work, and had leisure
the huge body. IL proved to he We feet eight
iaches high, hs muscular development of the
and bseas. showed what immense strength IL had pos
| sessed
bsGqu"ntly TO this Dlchaillu saw female gorilla
sucking her infant aud the mother having been shot,
bs endeayoreJ the little one but without sue.
cess be had no food for IL. s remarked that this
seem, doce than the o;hei and Ia fact is pre-
conclude yet that it the gorilla is csogh,
sufficiently young no is altogether beyond the Lh
Of humanity There Is skeleton of the Caucasian man.
sho is pointing rather contemporary at hrs gor =
compaaon but il is not certain that the diff
between tbem estimated by the superior anatomy,
not present little exaggerated. The writer just re-
fers these PERI Liking questions, which now the
province Of civil Psychologists He has one chapter on
the additional apes Of Africa and another the bopy
structure OF the gorilla and the cognae species, which is
accompanied by the symmetrical skeleton superior in
is own c0ncet
After summing up the osseous pecuarities upon both
he CO ats 10 the conclusion that there dissni
sry between tho bony frame Of and that Of the &C.
ii To- but that there 10 Also he says aH dsfd iksnsss
which in the gorilla resembles exaggerated carca,ure
human being" Moreover, TO such eItentis it evil
dent that he mpsessed by the native Stories that be
meat cd tht searched continually ascertain beth
iutermccss race. rather several intermediate
ces links bets, the natives aud the gorilla night
no. be found A. he could getno nearer 10 man than
the gorilla himself is say intermediate rea
ye ver for hccming, admit that Duchaiu's human
skeleton had so r reason for compsceucy that ii his
gairy spanion isconpecied sitn aim in any degree
coun so very far distant hardly expect TO be so
knowledge at this time OF day and in the pre.eace Of
good society.