The New York herald., 1920-01-11

before shooting him that ne was a huge
beast. but we were hardly prepared foi
the size and strength which the following
measurements Indicated
Height, feet II inches in ordinary stand.
ing attitude.
Chest. IS inches.
Girth around stomach. 67 inches.
Finger tip to finger tip. with arms ex-
tended, feet.
Forearm in thickest part, Is inches
round.
The Female Smaller.
The female gorilla was a good six inches
shorter and smaller in proportion, her
color and that OF the rest of the herd. with
the exception Of the old man, which, as
have already said, was partly gray, was
black with, in places, a dark brown tinge
While we were examining our bag, and
for some time during subsequent skinninG
operations we could hear the rest of the
gorillas some distance away screaming
and making noises unlike any other animal
we had heard. We thought they were
about seventy-five or hundred yards off,
but they did not attempt to molest us
and gradually drew off out Of earshot.
We spent the rest of that day skinning
the dead gorillas and in cutting the bones
out of them, much TO the amazement of
the natives. who could not understand
why we wanted the bones at all, and when
we told them that we were going to cook
and eat the flesh they were plainly dis
gusted, as apparently even they never
dared to eat gorilla meat. We afterward
Offered it to the pigmies in lieu Of the
buffalo meat which we had promised
them that we were going to spend the
next day in preparing and stretching out
the skins and the day after that should
be their benefit day and they could have
all the meat we shot
This promise we afterward carried out
and shot them two buffaloes, having first
been careful TO get directions from them
as to the whereabouts of the nearest VII
lage; thereafter we did not see our pig
mics again. We had to wait several days
at our present camp to dry the skins and
bones and during this time the baby
gorilla kept very fit, although we only
had canned milk to feed her on and a
Worcester sauce bottle fitted with piece
of hollow stick and small piece of rubber
tubing for a feeding bottle However, she
managed TO empty IL two or three times
every day and was great nuisance at
night as one or the other of us had to get
up every two or three hours TO heat her
milk and give it to her. When she got
hungry she used to cry and when con-
tented sucked her thumb like any human
baby.
Our return journey belongs TO another
story, as il cntailed several elephant
hunts. in which we were fairly success
full and we finished with lion hunt on
Rukshura Plains, which ended disastrous
ly. as I buried my brother there. he hav-
ing been killed by lion after we had
shot three.
During all this time the baby gorilla
was drinking more milk and growing fast
and appeared 10 be none the worse for
the continual trekking about. The final
stage Of my return journey from Kabali
on the Uganda frontier back to the farm
I accomplished in four days on a motor
bike carrying the gorilla inside my shirt.
1t seemed a very hardy animal and would.
believe. have lived, but was given milk
which we did not find out until after
ward, when it was too late--obtained
from a sick COW. so IL got i'll and finally
died two months after my return. How
ever, we have now the three complete
skins and skeletons Of the gorillas, so that
as far as the gorilla hunt goes our ex-
pedition cannot be described as failure
for I think that these would form a unique
group in any museum and should, as well.
be of some scientific value.