The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-05-12

imposing sight II seemed that they chose the hour Of
setting sun for their time OF mourning, just before thu
shades Of evening were 70 shroud the land in darkness
They sang N
Ne chi M labells pc ma beshe.
Which may be translated
oh. you will speak 70 us no more,
We cannot see your face any more
After half an hour Of chanting they stopped and then
have no burial ground, and leave their dead In different
parts OF the forest Now that have given you brief
account OF the customs Of the black let descend
TO his brother the ape In these gloomy solitudes men
like apes are SEEN found four varieties Of chimpan
zees; the common chmpanzee QroRlodytes niger)
Them anoheG Ua1sy WHICH 81
markabe for the badness Of his head called by the
natives nshiego mbounL Then another variety called
have besn able TO get. Then another variety,
called the Nshiego-kengo. The troglodytes niger,
, 81 nsniego an animal long since discovered,
varieties which discovered myself The chimpanzee
differs from the gorilla in these chief particularsI IL
the branches OF the great trees Of equatorial Africa II is
though untamable whom grown still not fierce like the
gorilla i has been known to attack man. but it, young
are trnctabie and easily tanned While the male gorilla
resists man, the chmpauzee flies to the desert woodz
y Is hunted with even greater difficulty than the gorilla
often the ADULTS 90 n pairs In equatorial Africa
mentioned that the chimpanzee not gregarious.
When published that work had not seen any great
number together, but during my last exploration I
have seen both chimpanzees and goras in herds The
negroes are very ingenious In their contrvances Of
traps for nearly all the greater beasts OF the forest
catching by various devices not Only the elephant hip
popotamus and antelope, but the leopard aud the
cunning monkeys; but know Of no case in which an
ape OF any kind was caught In this way The common
graphical range is found from the Gambia In almost
every degree Of latitude down to the parallel OF st.
Philip Of Benguela; we might say in almost every
denseiy model wooded country within the tropics.
Forests being necessary for the animals existence its
food consisting Of berries nuts and leaves 20 far as
have been able to ascertain Strange TO saw the Chin
panzee is only found in the westsrn par ~ xfrca
none having been found in the east This would prove
that The forest must not the whole Of tropical
two or these treglodytes niger killed one and saw
another in my Cape Lopez expedition was travelling
through some beautiful prairies each surrounded BY
dark forest and seeming like natural gardens planted in
the woody wilderness; IL does not require much time
to get into the backwoods -tlaughter-
buffalo standing the edge or the forest watch
ing our movements; evidently not liking our appear
ance he made for the Forest went intercept him
watched at one pass and the other round to
drive II towards me; suddenly something ap.
preaching me out of tho deep gloom Of the forest and
took II to be one OF my men, especially it neared me
me. and with shr scream il ran back into the woods
Then knew had mistaken chimpanzee for man;
felt quite annoyed; my men returned presently and
laughed at my mstake the black face Of the beast re-
minded me Of that Of the negro. The most curious
Of the varieties OF the chimpanzee, which discovered
Is the rogodytes carus called by the natives nshego
know it 10 on account OF his badness but is certainly
the most intelligent This bald headed chimpanzee has
niger, or common chimpanzee. found it only on the
table land OF the INTERIOR and in the densest regions
and south Of the Equator II differs from the gorilla Ia
The size OF an adult specimen Is about four feet In
height II 10 found in the haunts Of the goras and the
Two specimens do not quarrel II has the singular Gus
tom Of building nest or shelter for itself amid the higher
branches Of trees have watched this ape returning TO
rest 1T night and climb up to bis house and seat him
self comfortably in the projecting branch remember
we'll the first time saw the ushego mbounk Il was not
far from lake called Onongue had gone TO village
whose chief was called Shimbouvenguni king with
seventy years old and had dressed himself in swallow
all coat that probably belonged to his grandfather but
he had mot on another single article or costume
aughterl-with the exception Of beaver hat the top
If his head Of the fashion Of generation before He
seemed quite proud Of his costume, and had no
aouns gys1 muar,e0 uo.ass 9. "oy OF
articles Of dress He felt that his appearance
was 'the thing The people ssthered around
said had come to hunt His majesty sent me some
plantaiDs and some sugar cane by black woman, with
word that she was 70 be my wife This was true royal
took the plantain and sugar cane but de-
slined the matrimonial alliance We now come back TO
The nshiego mbouni; was walking along, accompanied
nothing when happened TO look up At high tree aud
saw q most singular shelter built In It's branches
the woods and 70 my utter surprise be said r. was built
bv the nshiego mbouni (chmpanzee that had hair on
It's head. cav At once was on the trail Of ami
vgor and with increased caution dstsrmasd not 70
until had and killed this building ape Such
Ss weary traveller SI many months
m finding shelter newly made. We waited iii dark,
Lysg quite still in conceament (which sorcly tried
my paience we ct last just At dusk, heard the loud
pecniiar hew how' how which IN the call Of tue
male TO his mate We then saw . nshiego seated in
his most his feet resting the lower branch, his
reaching quite into the little dome Of root, and his
arm clasped firmly round the tree trunk After gazing
iii was tired, slowly raised my gun. and Kabi did
the came and fired. The unfortunate beast n once
fell with tremendous crash at the foot Of the tree
without struggle or even groan. Then We built
drs madc our camp for the night We hung up The
beast OF the reach OF the bashkoDay and other
pleased as the world could behold This spsci.
men measured three feet and eleven inches
IN height, During o,sa my my travels succeeded nc sa
apcs il about four feet the spread OF arm Is seven
feet Now will give you description Of It's appear
men are covered with short and rather thin blackish
hair On the legs In the adult specimens the hair Is OF
dirty gray mixed with black. The shoulders and back
mixed with little gray. The arms, down to the waist,
have also long black hair but shorter in proportion
TO iss szs than 70 the gorilla The hair Is much thinner
ances for size s chest Is Of far less capacity, its
cular development Is not the prodigious scale,
its little longer, it, hand longer and more
slender The fingers especially. The hair Of tho nshego
s biacker longer and gossier than thai Of the gorilla
The latter and also all the varieties Of the chin
have their head covered with hair while the former IS
perfectly bald The ofthe nshego IN promi-
nent that Of the gorilla the mouth Is wider and ths
ears are much larger. the side Of the face n thiny
covered with hair commencing - about tho middle OF
the What struck me particularly was that found
always two shelters together one for the male, the
other for his mate when the leaves begin 10 dry they
move TO some other part Of the forest and make
shelter. The chmpanzss, like the gorilla, has only
one young at time But strange 70 say, though the
face Of tho adult specimen Is intensely black the young
has white skin. Il seems ~ though wonders would
never in these equatorial forests. and will
count 10 you how discovered the fact ! was in the
Bakalai country In nice se village, whose chief was
called Anguilai, and who was very kind man. had
been very III in bis village, feves having
brought me very low, and these poor
ages took great care Of me, and poor Anguilai
was sadly alarmed my illness One night he threat
ened 10 Kill the sorcersrs he could find Them shall
never forget the kindness OF the OF that village
They tried cook food for me- they sat by 10 fan
me, brought more mats 70 Ito upon, 70 that might
have softer bed, and when my head was burning with
fever they poured cool water from The spring upon IL
Even among savsges the good and gentle nature
peculsr 10 women can be found 1 recovered from
my illncss and had come 20 hunt as as
could commenced. Before starting according 70 the
BakaiH fashion the men covercd thems4vee with