The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-17
TO CAGE HIMSELF I'm AFnrcA.
Prof Garner VIII Fllrt with the Female
Gorlllas.


Gorlllas.
WASHINGTON, Now 18.-Prof. r.. l..
Garner, who has achieved recent Gel
ebrity in connection with the study of
monkey language, is in Washington
consulting with scientific men respect
ing an expedition to Africa which he
proposes to make. For some years past
he has devoted attention to the analysis
of simian speech, his purpose being to
| produce lexicon thereof. Once hay-
| ing established an unders landing of q
few of the simpler words used by these
arboreal cousins OF mankind, he be.
| lieves that it will be easy enough to
communicate with them intelligently.
Thus they may be educated in limited
| degree, and may be taught to be of
some service to the world.
Prof. Gamers present intention is to
learn something Of the speech of goril.
las. Accordingly, he proposes to sail a
| few weeks hence for the west coast of
Africa, whence he will make his way
| into the Gaboon country, where are vast
forests, which afford home to the
greatest number of gorillas to-day.
| He will take with him large iron
| cage, constructed in sections so as to be
readily transported. This cage is not
intended to catch gorillas in. On the
contrary, it is meant to keep them out
Prof. Garner proposes TO occupy it him
self, having set it up in the midst of the
forest.
| In that region the forests at night are
kept in an uproar by the bowls of gor-
illas. There are the bachelors Of the
species, which are naturally disposed to
| oppose going to bed until morning,
! while the males that have families keep
an unrestful guard at the foot of the
trees whore their wives repose among
I the branches, in the intervals of the
squalling of the youngsters for lack of
ipecac and soothing syrup. Here Prof.
Garner will establish his roost and try
to catch by ear few suggestions of the
language employed by these wild crea-
lures in shouting to one another. He
| anticipates that the study he has al
ready made of monkey talk will be a
help.
After acquiring by guess the meaning
of a few words, he will make use of
them by taking part in the howis him
self. BY day as we'll as by night he
will make responses to the yells and
cries of gorillas that he hears in the
woods, and he thinks that in this way
he will be able to attract certain indi-
viduals, especially females, about him.
Presumably they will be favorabiy pre-
possessed with so agreeable an anthro-
poid as the professor, and intimacies
may result which will afford most profit
able opportunities for conversation.
He will not venture out of his cage,
however.
OLD Man Bready will commence to kill
some of the thirty head Of cat he now
has. They are fat and are beauties.
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