The herald., 1896-03-08

tion OF the chimpauzse, especially that
variety known as the "kulu X Amba." :"
Pursuant to this purpose, found it
necessary to make short jour hey up
the Congo.
This river is travelled by whi te men
from time to time, and many a. ,counts
are given of the wonders that are
found along it; but the adjacent coun-
try has been explored 80 little that no
one can tell what it may yet produce.
From time to time some ano maly OF
nature is discovered, and almost every
traveller sees something new along the
way, and have not been the least for
tunaue among them.
Something more than a hundred
miles from the coast is the capital of
the Congo Free State. 1t is called
Matadi, and 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
auch mass OF humanity can be found.
Almost every tribe known, from Sierre
Leone to the Cape, and nearly al the
tribes Of the Congo Basin, are repre-
sented.
The most singular specimen of tho
human race that l have ever seen saw
ct this place. His resemblance to a
gorilla was 80 striking that the most
casual observer could not fail to see it.
He was not freak of nature, but
typical man of his tribe. His body was
long in proportion to his limbs, his
legs comparatively short, aud his arms
comparatively long. He was black as
jet, and his face was glossy and
wrinkled. These wrinkles we're not
caused by age, as the man was in the
prime of his life. His forehead was
low and receding, the frontal bone
being prominent in the center and
much depressed at the sides. His eyes
were overhung with enormous ridges
and heavy eyebrows, above which was
q deep depression, and the low forehead
was traversed by three or four deep
lines or wrinkles almost resembling
folds of the skin. The eye itself was
intensely black, and the sclerotic,
which is white in most human eyes,
and yellow in the black race. was. in
this individual, dark brown-so dark
in fact, that the whole eye appeared al
most uniformly black, and the outer
edge of the iris could only be dis
cerned by close look. The eyes were
large, and the openings were almost as
large vertically az horizontally, max
ing the angles very wide. They we're
placed obliquely in the head, but their
extreme width made this less noticea-
BILE. This is not a characteristic of the
African eye in general, but belongs,
rather to the Mongolian race.
His ears were quite small and set
close to the side of the head. They
we're much elongated and slightly an
gulsr. There was no feature of the
man more like those of the gorilla
than his ears, except that they we're
longer in proportion than those of the
ape. The nose was fiat and extremely
broad, the nostrils wide apart and the
apex depressed. That part of the nose
was marked by slight depression,
suggesting two lobes at that part. The
septum was much exaggerated and the
nostrils oblique.
The jaws we're massive and the chin
receding. The angles of the jaw were
pronounced and the muzzle projected
to an unusual degree. The teeth were
extremely large and slightly discol-
ored. The CANNES were observable
Wa0AoNc cI tuo llpS were OpoueQ. lQoV
slightly protruded 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 it almost
drooped by reason of it's own weight.
The whole visage ives one of the most
depraved OF british types, and the only
thing that did not resemble the gorilla
was the mouth. The lips Of the gorilla
are much less massive.
Icalled the attention Of an English
trader to the striking resem blance of
this man to the gorilla. and the trader
assured me that during a residence of
more than ten years in the Congo ba-
sin he had never seen specimen so
low and british as was this man.
In stature he was somewhat bslow
the normal height of man. This was
due III part to his short legs. which
were so curved below the knees as to
give him grotesque look. His feet
were immensely large and his toes
turned inward, somewhat pigeon fash
ion. The muscles of the legs we're
small. as compared with those of the
arms. His hands appeared smaller in
proportion than his feet, although they
were large. The muscles of the upper
arm were strong and we'll defined.
while those Of the forearm appeared to
be less powerful. The wrists and an
kles we're large. the calves of the legs
small, and the shns decidedly convex
The hair on the head was very short
and kinky It grew low down on the
flat forehead, leaving a space of little
more than al inch between it and the
eyebrows. and it also covered the upper
portion of the cervical region, almost
to level with the shoulders. Over the
iegs and arms there grsw a consider
able coat OF hair This was no. 40
kinky as that on his head. but was a
struggling growth of thin hair, inclined
to be wavy. This is often found on the
limbs and bodies of the natives. and I
have seen others with quite as much
hair or even more on those parts.
He acted as we'll as looked like the
gorilla. l watched him two hours and
was more and more impressed every
moment by his resemblance to that
ape. At one time he lay down in the
stern of the canoe. The tropical suo
was shining with all it's strength. He
lay with his face exposed to its broil-
Ing rays, but be never once batted his
eyes in its glare. His long arms we're
folded under his head and one leg Law
across the other in careless fashion.
In the other end of the canoe lay a boy
Of strong build and good proportions.
After time this youth rose to his feet