Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1896-03-19
Saint Maru's Beacon
The Remarkable Discovery Made BY
Monkey Student Garner.

the human race ever seen has just
been discovered by Professor r. L.
Garner, the celebrated African ex-
plorer and investigator Of monkey
life.
Professor CAREERS chief object in
going to Africa the last time was to
determine more precisely the exact
limits Of the habitat of the gorilla
and the distribution Of the Chin
panzee, especially that variety known
as "kula kamba."
The Congo ia a stream Of won
ders, and the surrounding country
has been so little explored that no
one can tell what it may vet pro-
duce. White men travel mp the
river from time to time, and they
have brought some queer stories
with item Of encounters they have
had. Matadi, the capital OF the
Congo Free State, lies more than
a hundred miles from the coast.
To this center gravitate 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.
Every tribe from Sierra Leone to
the Cape, as we'll as the tribes OF
the Congo basin, are represented.
1t was at this place that Professor
Garner came across this singular
specimen of humanity here des-
cribed. His resem blance to a 60
rilIa is striking. He is not freak
Of nature, but a typical man of his
tribe. The body is long in proper
ton to the limbs, and the legs arr
rather short, while the arms are dis
proportionately long. The mans
skin was black as jet, glossy and
wrinkled, though not the sign Of
age, for the man was in his prime.
His forehead was low and reced-
ing. the frontal being prominent
in the center and much depressed
at the sides. Enormous ridges and
heavy eyebrows hung over the eyes
Above them was deep depression.
and the low forehead was trayersed
by the three or four deep lines.
looking like folded skin. The ey.
was intensely black. The scierotic.
which is white in the human eyes,
and yellow in the black race. was
in this case dark brown. So dark
was it that the outer edge Of the
iris could not be noticed by close
look. The angle of the eyes were
very wide and differed materially
from the African eye IN general
belonging rather to the Mongolian
type.
The ears OF this queer creature
were very small and set close to the
side Of the head. They were much
elongated and slightly angular, thu
true gorilla ear, with the exception
of being longer than those of the
ape. The nose was fat and broad.
the jaws were massive and the chin
receding. The teeth were extreme
ly large and somewhat discolored,
and looked quite savage in an enor-
nous mouth with unusually thick
lips. The whole visage was that of
the most depraved brute type. Ira
ders who have been living in the
Congo for years had never seen so
low type of brute creation as this
man. The feet of this maa were
enormous, and his toes turned IN
ward. The head hair was sort of
kinky. 1t grew low down on the
fat forehead, leaving u space of not
more than an inch between the eye-
brows. and covering the upper por-
ton of the cervical region as far
down as the shoulders. Legs and
arms were also covered with a con-
siderable growth of Ealr.
In his action this peculiar spem-
linen of humankind was much like
q gorilla. The expression of the
face is that of savage. The man
had not one shred of clothing on
his body beyond a narrow band Of
bark around the waist, to which
vas suspended small piece of bark
cloth, and worn like a small apron.
From what Prof. Garner could
learn through others, who some.
what understood the jargnn Of I'll,
gorilla he came from the fal
interior of Africa. and belonged t.
one of the most depraved tribes oil
cannibals. He was slave. aud haC
not yet learned the language Of tn,