The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-05-31
The Chimpanzee and Gorilla.


! by NJ Du Chail!u at the Academy of Music,
New YORK.
| Here the manlike apes are found. There
are four species Of chanpanzees. l have
discovered one-a bald headed chimpauzee,
the wisest of them ALL He builds shelter
| for himself l don't know that his bald
ness is a sign of his wisdom | suppose it
| is +; though | don't come to that conclusion
because [ am that way inclined myself
| Laughter. The natives of that country
are very ingenious In contrlving traps to
catch nearly all the animals of the forest,
but have never known an instance OF their
entrapping gorilla or chlmpanzee. The
common chimpanzee is known for it's un-
usual geographical range. 1t is found
| from Senegambia to St Philippe, Bengu-
Glow, which range is almost the extent OF
| the tropics. 1t is found where there are
forests, for all those apes require large
wooded tracts; they feed upon the berries
and nuts of the forest. The chimpanzees
or gorillas are not found on the east coast
which would indicate that the large forests
of inter tropical Africa do not reach the
east coast; that there is an intervening
gap of prairie or barren land, where they
cannot live. [ remember the first time |
ever saw the chimpanzee it was in the
Cape Lopez country. | was hungry, fan
cied [ would like buffalo steak, and my
men were out in the woods trying to bring
the buffalo toward me. | stood in the
woods, when, all at once, saw black face
coming toward me. Thinking it was one
of my men | did not fire, when, suddenly,
the beast saw me, uttered cry, and dlsap-
peared. But the most curious of the CHM
panzees, certainly, are the bald headed.
They have, in fact, 6 no hair on the top of
I the head, 10 the place where the wool had
ought to grow" as the song has it. laugh
ter They have much narrower range
than the other species of chimpanzee or the
gorilla they are much smaller than the
Others I never found this kind of chin
panzee higher than four feet and three or
four inches They are far less powerful
than the other chimpanzees and the gorilla
are even less powerful in proportion than
their diminished size would indicate. They
are covered with jet black hair. which Is
longer on the arms and face /; have wbisk-
ers coming from below the ears of course
their face is intensely black. | was hunt
ing the Bakalai county and the Mpongwe,
when suddenly saw female chimpanzee
with young one eIinging to her; The
mother was eating berries, occasionally
looking fondly at her baby, very much as
:
nary as it may seem, and much to my own
surprise, the skin of the young chimpanzee
was white, whittier than mine, but very pale,
just like the skin Of dead person, We
fred at and killed the mother, and, of
course, caDtured the baby. | Immediately
ordered retreat to camp. The little chin
panzee ran toward its mother, touched her
face, and seemed to mourn. He saw at
once that some great change had taken
place In three day the little chimpanzee
was perfectly tame. kept him for five
months, and as he became civilized. he be-
came great thief, laughter that was
the first step in civilization be made, and,
though don't say the negroes would steal
quite as much, tell you frankly that |
found the primitive, unsephisticated man
great scamp too. Laug hter This lit
tie fellow followed me through the forest
and became very gentle. as well as very
cunning He would watch the natives, and,
as soon as they went away from their huts,
he would invade them and steal their plan
tains, &C. When [ ate, he would mount
tree and take view Of what was on my
| table, and them come down and indicate
that he wanted something. If anything
beside what he had made up his mind to
have was offered him, he fastidiously re-
jected it, and continued to do SO, till he got
what he desired His last exploit was in
stealing bottle of brandy. had been alb
sent; when | returned sme!led strong
smell of brandy; found the bottle broken,
and young chimpanzee dead drunk beside
it. Laughter. If you had seen him you
could have comprehended how much like
/ beasts we are when in that condition. Ap
plause Finally, one day he refused his
| cd ha
which [ had with me here, on my former
visit to this country. | found the crumil
capacity of this class of chimpanzee to be
about - to 20 cubic inches. The. skull Of
this bald headed ape does not so nearly re
semble the skull Of man as does that o!
the gorilla. 1t seems to be caricature OF
a man. The entire bony frame Of the go
rilla also bears,a closer resemblance to that
Of man than does that of the bald headed
Chi mpan zee, You cannot claim a single
bone more than the gorilla. The gorilla has
l3 pain Of ribs, and the man has II, and
you must remember that man long time
ago lost one pair of ribs, which women had
ought to know something about. Laugh
ter. Perhaps bachelors still retain the
thirteenthipair. Renewed laughter The
grea. power OF the gorilla, compared with
man S, is we'll shown and accounted for in
this immense ridge referring to painting
Of gorilla, to a ridge of bone represented
on it, running from the cheek to the par-
etal bones, to which powerful muscles arc
attached. He is very much like man in
hight. | have had in my collection speci-
mems five feet ten inches in length. The
gorilla roams in the forest and feeds on ber-
RES, never remaining TWO days in the same
place. With his enormous CANNES, doubt
ed his being exclusively a vegetarian, and
examined the stomachs of all those that
killed, to see if there were traces of animal
food, but In examining some 40 specimens
in that way, never found any trace of it !;
and think we must therefore conclude that
be is vegetarian. Some gorillas measure
five feet ten inches round the chest, while
| the middle finger of the hand on some of
them measures six to six and half inches
in circumference. He has the same num-
Der OF teeth as mantle milk teeth-at
first % teeth, and four additional as he
grows older, making 3d. Ills strength is
enormous; he pairs with his mate and they
so together. | remember the first time |
| L., l.,