The Washington times., 1922-06-11
THE HUGE MONARCH
rs KILLED WITHOUT
SHOW OF A FIGHT
Husband OF Mary Hastings Bradley Ends
Career Of a Patriarch Of the Jungle Who
Was Found In His Native Haunts- New
Weapons DO Not Give Beast Much Of a
Chance Nowadays.

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Q ruddy SMOKE. Chaninasonso
smokes rather iasily. but Nyamia-
sira has bssn steadily active since
its last eruption seven ysars ago.
and at night . siSw from that era
ter was flame In the sky. =.
Lulsnga mission has bean the
lodsstsr Of gorilla seekers ever
sfncs tAs discovery Of true gorillas
IN the heart Of equatorial Anica.
0oriIlas had always bean asso-
dated with low west coast tunsiss
Of the Gaboon. but twenty years
ago IN Englishman. Quentin Gro
gan. on his famous two!year walk
from the cape to Cairo. found the
skeleton Of . true gorilla In the
equatorial mountains.
Later, occasional rumors Of
great apes UP in the bamboos wsrs
C1LTtcu W tuo hoeANCo W sho WhAsS
men. but the apes were supposed
to be the chimpanzees, whose pres
sncs was already known.
Then about thirteen years ago .
German. drauer. passed through
Nairobi with some gorilla skins he
had obtained In the mountains OF
what was then the western edge
Of German East Africa
The first gorilla Of which the
mission had any record was that
shot by Count Pauwels In the COM
mencement Of 1s1s.
At the end Of 1914 the Count
Arhenius made . successful hunt
In tho bamboos and he returned
with Prince william OF Sweden on
an expedition which was just leav-
ing for the Congo a. We came
into It.
When ws were IN London In
August ws had heard that the
prince was dangsrousiy III with
fever.
SWEDISH PRINCE SHOT
FIRST GORILLA NEAR CAMP.
He had made his camp at the
mission and shot his first gorilla
hors IN the forss Just an hour
from the, camp. The other mem-
bers Of his party. even the soldiers.
had killed others. 90 altogether
fourteen were slaughtered.
There were moments when we
wondered anxiousiy II there were
any soriIlas left for N, anything
but lone widows and undergrown
youthsi OF course, . gorilla was
q gorilla, but II was the grown
male who has given the legend Of
ferocity to hts race. had brought
with me Du Chaillu's description
Of his first sight Of one:
The underbrush swayed slightly
Just ahead. and presently before us
stood an immense male gorilla
He had gone through the Jungle
on all fours; but when he saw our
party he erected himself and
looked US boldly IN the face.
He stood about dozen yards
from us and was . sight I think
never to forget. Nearly six feet
high he proved two inches
shorter). with immense body. huge
chest and great muscular arms,
with fiercely flarins. largo, deep
gray eyes. and q hellish EXPIRES
sion Of face, which seemed to me
like some nightmare vision-thus
stood before us the king Of the
African forest.
His eyes began to flash
fiercer fire - we stood motionless
on the defensive. and the crest Of
short hair which stands on his
forehead began to twitch rapidly
UP and down, while his powerful
fangs were shown a. he again set
forth . thunderous roar.
And now, truly, he reminded me
Of nothing but some hellish dream
creature-a being Of that hideous
order, half man. half beast, which
We find pictured by old artists in
some representations Of the in.
fernal regions
MRS. BRADLEY AND HER
HUSBAND START HUNTING.
In the hope Of meeting the gen.
tleman Of this description Herbert
and started off UP the mountain
at 8 o'clock the morning after our
arrival ut the mission.
It vas q lovely morning. sweet
and fresh with that feeling Of
spring that mornings have In
Africa.
We were mounted on . mule ind
donkey belonging to the White
Fathers. with guides running ahead