The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-07-26
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WITH greaasenemies, is Just now receiving
ir1enass able calls from his large circle of
lnn9sgg lnn9sg in Berlin. He is called Pongo,
lM is the. most interesting result OF
2Prussian scientific. expedition into the
interior of Africa. -
An account Of. his habits is furnished
by correspondent in the Prussian capi-
ital, who is on terms of great intimacy
with him: "Pongo is now" the writer
believes, "nearly three years old, and ne
is about three feet high; his skin is COW
cred with soft, silky hair, mixed with
gray, and reddish on the head. He has
powerful form, muscular arms, smooth,
polished, black face, with well-shaped
ears, and q large, sharp and malicious
eye, which gives him strikingly human
appearance. When one has the pleasure,
as I had this week, of spending a morn
ing with him.in his apartment, he strikes
you-after having got over the slight
feeling of disappointment which is pro-
duced by the absence of any bridge to
his nose-as being singularly like a very
amusing, playful, and good-natured negro
boy, rather awkward in some of his ges-
lures, and, in his mode of progression,
sometimes distinctly ape-like. AS he
sits, looking solemnly round him, he ap-
pears to be thinking of what the next
Joke shall be, until presently something,
in your gestures Or voice pleases him,
and then suddenly he claps his. hands,
together and mods with an air of great
delight, g...11S - ...s...s;.s .a.m {
,..sHe is very sociable, and distinguishes
young from old and male from female
visitors. He is exceedingly attached to.
the society of children Of two or three.
years old, plays about with them as e.
though recognizing them as playfelSoWs
of his own age, chases them round the
cage, allows them to pull him about,
drag him blythe legs and roll him over
and over, swings with them on the ira
peze, kisses them if they allow him, and
permits them to take every kind of liber--.
ty without making any unfair use Of his
superior strength. With older children
he seems to understand that he may be,
more rough, and, when he is racing about
with them, he slyly upsets chair, and
takes the opportunity of giving them
friendly boxes on the ear. When ladies
visit himg in 4 his large cage, which is
suitably furnished with sofas, chairs and
table, trapeze, and all kinds of gymnastie
appliances, they have nothing to fear,
except from. his somewhat importu
amiabilty. He is particularly delighted
if they take him up in their arms he
embraces them and leans his head against
their shoulders with a grateful and graft
fed air; he is by no means willing to be
set down again.
t'The Berlin Aquarium, in which he
now holds court, is rich in varieties OF
the larger monkeys, and when he goes
into the monkeys cage he rules there.
supreme. Even the chimpanzee, who
resembles very much in his clever human
ways an old fayorite of London at the
Geological Gardens, treats him as dis
tinctly his superior. The gorilla, how
ever, appears to recognize the chimp
as nearly his equal, chooses him almost
exclusively for his playmate, and bestows
friendly but rather rongh caresses on
him. He is fond of getting hold of the
chimpanzee, keeping him down and roll
ing him over on the ground. Sometimes
the monkey manages to slip from under
him, and then Pongo sprawls awkwardly
on the floor: OF, both hands, and looks up
with an expression of accepted defeat.
He walks on the soles of his feet, leaning
at the same time on the outside of his
hands, but he turns out his toes far more
than the chimpanzee, and he carries his
head more grandly erect, this seeming to
be the. mark of high social standing.
When in high spirits he has way of
showing the tip of his red tongue, which
makes his black face look all the. more
like that of a negro boy. -
ellis mode of life is as human as are
all his ways. He sleeps on. mattress
rolled in a rug, and at about 8 o'clock in
the morning he rises in his bed, sits up,
yawns, scratches himself, and remains in
q sleepy, hstless condition till he has,
taken his milk. which he drinks out of a
tumbler. He is now wide awake, and
looks about the room for something to
play with, and perhaps, if he is allowed,
to destroy; for. he is as mischieyous as
any child or as any monkey. Then ne
looks out of the window, claps his hands,
and for want of some more suitable COM
panionship, begins to play with h& keep
er. This man must be continually in
attendance on him he does not allow
himself to be left alone for single emo-
ment. IF he finds himself alone, he:ut-
ters the shrillest cries until he regains
the society of man. At 9 o'clock the
gorilla is. tubbed, an operation in which
he takes the greatest delight, expressing
his approval in bass notes, which, per-
haps, it will be impolte to call grunting.
"He takes his meals at the usual Ger
man hour; for breakfast he has sausa-
ges, preserved meat, cheese and the IA
vorite white Berlin beer. It is extremely
funny to- see him try to hold the glass
with his fat, short fingers, while he is as
sisting himself with his feet. He is
fond of fruit, which he eats with the
most gentlemanly deliberation, carefully
removing the stone when eating cherries
or other fruit of the kind. At 1 o'clock
the keepers wife brings him his lunch,
and he seems to possess SO punctual an
internal monitor of the time that this
should be brought that he is always ex-
tremely impatient if it is not there to the
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