The evening times., 1896-03-06
Professor Garner Claims to Have
Made an important Discovery.
Is IT MAN OR GORILLA ?
Strange Specimen of the Human Fam
lily In the JunGle- of Africa-Is Not
Man of His Tribe--Somet hing for the
Scientists to Think About.
New York World.

One or the chief objects OF Prof. Gamer 8
voyage to Africa was TO determine with
| more precision the exact limits OF the
\ hahitat of the gorilla and the distribU
| ton of the cbimpanZee. especially that
evariety known as ''kulu kamba." Pur
| suan, to this purpose he found II necessary
| TO make a short journey up the Congo.
| This river j. Travelled by white men from
| time TO time, and many accounts are given
| OF the wonders that are found along IL, but
the adjacent country has been explored so
| little that no one can tell what il may yet
| produce. From time to time some anomaly
of nature is discovered. and almost every
| Traveller sees something new along the
I way.
| Something more than a hundred miles
from the coast is the capital or the Congo
! Free State. 1t is called Maiadi, and to
| this center grayitatc members OF all the
| tribes on the west side of the continent.
| There is no place in all the world, perhaps,
| where such a mass OF humanity can be
| found Almost every tribe known, from
| Sicrrc Leone 10 the cape, and nearly al
| the tribes OF the Congo basin, are rep
| resented.
| A STRANGE SPECIMEN.
| The most singular specimen of the human
\ race that has ever been seen was found at
| this place. Hisrcscmblanceto To Il gorilla was
\ so striking that the most casual observer
| could not fail 20 see it. He was not a freak
OF nature, but n typical man of his tribe.
His body was long i'll proportion to his
| limbs his legs Comparatirclysshort and his
arms co comparatively long.
He was as black as jet and his face'was
glossy and wrinklcd. These wrinkles
| We're not caused 10y age as the man was in
the prime OF his life. His forehead was
| low and receding, the frontal bone being
| prominent in IN center and much depressed
at the sides. Ills eyes were overbung with
enormous ridges and heavy eyebrows, above
| which was a deep depression. and the low
| forehead was traversed by three or four
| deep lines or wrinkles almost resembling
| fields of the skin.
The eye itself was intensely black, and
| the sclerotic, which is white i'll most human
| eyes, and yellow in the black race, was
| in this individual ii dark brown. so dark
| i'll fact. that the whole eye appeared al
most uniformly black and the outer edge
| OF the iris could only be discerned by a
| close look The eyes were large and the
| opening was almost as wide vertically as
| horizontally, ma king the angles very wide.
They were placed obliQuely in the head, but
| their extreme width made this less notice
able. This is not a characteristic of the
African eye in general, but belongs rather
to the Mungolan type.
MAN OR GORILLA.
|. His cars were quite small and set close
to the side of the head. They were much
elongated and slightly angular. There was
no feature OF the man more like those OF
the gorilla than his ears. except that they
were longer in proportion than those of the
ape.
The nose was fiat and extremely broad,
the nostrils wide apart and the apex de-
pressed. That part of the nose was marked
by slight depression, suggesting two lobes
at that part. The septum was much cxag-
geratei and the nostrils obliquc.
The jaws were massive and the chin re-
cetling. The angles of the jaw were pro-
nounced and the mpZZle projected to an
unusual degree. The teeth were extremely
large and slightly discoiorcd. The CANNES
were observable whenever the lips were
opened. They slightly protrudcd beyond
the line of the other teeth. The middle
incisors were large and set at an angle.
The mouth was extremely large and the
lips unusually thick. The lower lip was so
massive that 1t almost drOOped by reason
OF its own weight. The whole visagc was
one of the most depravcd or brut isb types
and the only thing that did not resemble the
gorilla was iacmonih. Thclips OF he gorilla
are much, less massive.
OF SMALL STATURE.
In stature he was somewhat below the
normal height of man. This was due in
part TO his short legs. which were SO curved
below the knees us TO give hin grotesque
look. His feet were immensely large and