Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-12-19
WITH THE GORILLAS.
PROFESSOR GARNER STARTS OUT
 AGAIN TO STUDY MONKEYS.

If Successful, Says the Results Will R.
 Surprising Going to the Interior O
 Darkest Africa-win Return Some Tim'
 Next Spring.
 I am now on the edge of civilization, about to plunge into the depths of tht | African forest. These are the last words l shall send before I disappear. Where l and when shall come out I do not l know.
 ] am now writing at Ambrizette, An 1 gola, and it is the 16th of October. 1t IS unlikely that anything will be heard from me for some months. 1t is, of course, possible that I may never again reach civilization, and that this manu- script will be my last.
 But if my journey is as successful as expect it to be it will be surprising in it's results and rapid in execution. l in- tend now to strike out for the Bolumba country and into the interior of darkest Africa.
 Here I shall again resume my experi- ments with the native gorillas and hope to complete the alphabet of the ma tive language of the ape, which l was compelled to abandon during my first visit here year ago
 hope to cross Esyria to the Rembo Nkani and via Fernan Vaz lake into the Lake Izanga country, where shall make for the coast. No time can be stated for this hazardous journey, as .. h R11f hope to be back in New York early in the now year, or, at any rate, before the summer is well advanced.
 I am we'll equipped for this journey and for my experiments.
 My previous experience in Africa will be of the utmost value.
 My knowledge of the country and of the native languages has already been of the greatest assistance.
 Standing here on the brink where civ ilization and barbarism meet, l am con- fident that the journey which is before me will bring them both closer together. am bringing some of the finest me- chanical productions of civilization into the heart of the jungle. I shall bring out of the primeya1 forest specimens bearing on anthropology and testimony to the antiquity of language that will be absolutely new.
 There are things in this African jun gle which comes down here to where stand that bear directly on the history of our race and speech. Here are founC races that have not advanced ill 10, 00( years, races that seem indeed never tt have advanced and to occupy today { I lower place in the social scale tha1 many animals.
 I do not doubt that there are member of the monkey family possessing higher intelligence and greater flueno, of language than many natives of Afr ca, whom they so closely resemble. have known of the same words bein used to express the same things ill tn language of both. These are some of tn facts my present. journey will throN light upon.
 I am heading now for the greates monkey country in the world, the grea original breeding place of our race, q some believe Here are to be foun races of men the like of which can h seen nowhere else on earth.
 Here are to be found men so pecnlif that hundreds of thousands, if not mi lions, of years must have elapsed sine they branohed off from the rest of tf great human family. They are toda either the sole remaining specimens { primeval man or men who have slowl
 by interbreeding developed unique idit syncrasies which differentiate thei
 from all others.
 II In this great African jungle whie the light of civilization has never pen'
 trated, where time has stood stil which is today identical with what 2 was 10, ,000 years ago. an animal civil B zation has sprung mp that has advance ? l quicker than the civilization of its hl f man inhabitants. The skull of monkey
 in this great heart of Africa has grow
 faster than the skull of men.
 Here are found the largest monke. and the smallest men. Not far fro
 where I am sitting tonight writing J The Sunday World the chimpanzees hay y musical instruments around which the
 hold dance, while there are tribes
 savages so low and brutal as never
 have invented musical instrument.
 Monkey tribes, gorilla tribes al - chimpanzee trihes are organized. The l. have leaders and governors. They see, n to have rude system of government
 the forest.
 oI Each appears to have special coul
 try of it's own into which the othe
 rarely penetrate. They have mysteriol
 calls, periodical conventions and regull = times for joyful gatherings.
 This is the greatest place for scientif { inquiry on earth--first, because it is u ] oldest known field of human occupanc,
 and, secondly, because it has been who
 ly neglected. This is a virgin forest ar
 virgin field for exploration and di covery.
 . There is more to be learned in AfriC ! on the remote history of our race tha in all the rest of The world together. -
 R. L. Garner in New York World.