The Iola register., 1890-08-22

N"b1 VI writes from
HEAD OF 35-YsAR-oLD Ogore river. Ga
GORILLA. boon and Corisco
Mission, West Africa. He says:
The getting of a great hope Is like
the setting OF the sum- says Longfel.
low in the opening page of his Hyperion.
quote his sentiment apropos of my
giving up the hope of obtaining you
a gorilla brain. | have clung to the
hope and had the decided belief that
could obtain it, but now believe it i'm
possible; except for one like a traveller
or explorer or some one who would
make a business of it, hampered by
nothing else, who could sit down in
native village for a few weeks, hiring
the hunters to out daily. That is the
way Du Chaillu obtained his. do not
believe that he or any other white man,
unaided, can obtain gorilla" -.
After hunting vainly for brain in
August, 1889. he determined to go into
the gorilla region: 81 made all my plans
with great forethought as to DETAIL" he
continues. ''The season would be the
cool day when could hunt with less
discomfort. There are scarcely any
gorillas in this Talaguga region.
know of but two being killed in the
eight years / have been here, so closed
my house and went down the river
seventy miles to Kangwe. There /
chose good crew of eight young men.
Your carboy of chloride of zinc had been
carefully kept all these years. took
nf ~ 10 70 To- II
which was to immerse the brain as il
should finally go to you. took along
several gallons of whisky. | took my
Winchester and double -barreled gun and
united with me NJ. Gacon, Swiss sharp
shooter. The native hunters were also
armed. 80 .r.--...
1--WE took six-oared gig at Andinde
and went twenty miles down the river
to the village of man named Aveya.
There we ate dinner and took man
to guide US among the innumerable
islands of Lake o-Nange and Ogemwe.
The islands are all covered with heavy
forests growing cut of volcanic rocks.
The lake is very deep in places and
most of the approaches to the islands
very rocky and unsafe. We found an
island protected with cove and smooth
sandy beach. There we pitched our
tents and took our supper. The island
was small and uninhabited. No wild
animals-perhaps snakes. Startled at
our camp-fres, the hippopotami snorted
in the lake shadows. They attack in
the water only when wounded or while
in charge of their young. They never
leave the water to attack ashore. We
arose early and moved on to another
island where we were given lodging by
a native Okendo.
IN. Gacon and Ogula went on a hunt
ing expedition and returned with the
report that they had seen signs of goril.
council was held IN the evening with
the villagers as to time. route and the
art of hunting gorillas. Some two or
three old men and half dozen young
men, whom did not know, voluntarily
attached themselves to our party, evi-
IDENTIFY for gain, and eventually for
bade them following US, for they ham
pered us Everybody was sure would
not be in the village four days without
succeeding. They told wonderful stories
of the numbers and audacity of the gor'
rillas. Not two days passed but some
one saw them in the gardens. As the
garden work is done principally by
women, it was they who most frequent
" saw them, sometimes actually meet
ing them in the paths and being pur'
sued by males. From all their accounts
the gorilla is full of arts and tricks OF
the monkey tribes-quick to read faces
The women being unarmed and afraid
the animals were more daring to them
than to the men
"But they all said we white people
would have no chance of getting SO
near; that the animals would detect oul
strange odor and fear our white faces
They hoped we would kill many, fol
their gardens were devastated by the
gorillas, pigs, oxen and elephants. Mos
of the men said though they often saw
with their flint locks that often uncer
tainly flashed in the pan, or whose slug
shots were not Immediately fatal
for then they were at the mercy
of the wounded beasts They
warned rs that if we met with
male who dared to face US. moi
to fire till only few yards distant, and
even then not to aim at the head, fol
the animal had the art-being AGO quaint
ed with guns and ali having Informed
each other las the sailors believe)-o
ducking its head down at the click o.
the trigger. We were to aim at the
abdomen. which from its size could no
fail TO be injured, and the head or ches
would probably be pierced By the ami
NAL having ducked his head down Il
dodge shot aimed, as it supposed, q
its head
The next day we all. some fourteen
men and eight dogs, went In the boat tc
q large island shortly after sunrise. My
own crew Of six were afraid and 1 lef