. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. GORILLAS AXD TUEIR HABITS. 13 Gorillas had been recently seen iu the neighbourliood of a plantation on the Fernandez Vas river, just south of the equator and not far from the West Afiican coast, Jie got iip early and went into it. \\v writes : " Th^ plantation was a large one, and situated on very broken gi-ound, surrounded by tlio viigin forest. It was a lovely morning ; the sky was almost cloudless, and all around was as still a;j. death, except the slight nistling of the tree tops moved by the gentle land breeze. When I reached tli
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. GORILLAS AXD TUEIR HABITS. 13 Gorillas had been recently seen iu the neighbourliood of a plantation on the Fernandez Vas river, just south of the equator and not far from the West Afiican coast, Jie got iip early and went into it. \\v writes : " Th^ plantation was a large one, and situated on very broken gi-ound, surrounded by tlio viigin forest. It was a lovely morning ; the sky was almost cloudless, and all around was as still a;j. death, except the slight nistling of the tree tops moved by the gentle land breeze. When I reached tlie place, I had just to pick my way through the maze of tree-stumps and half-burned logs by tlie side of a field of cassada. " I was going quietly along the bordei-s of this when I heard in the grove of plantation tree s towards which I was walking a great crushing noise lilce the breaking of trees. I immediately hid myself behind a bush, and was soon gi'atified with the sight of a female Gorilla ; but before I hiid time to notice its movements, a second and third emerged from the masses of colossal foliage; at length, no less than four came in view. They were aU busily engaged in tearing down the larger Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Duncan, P. Martin (Peter Martin), 1821-1891; Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS. London [etc] Cassell & Company, Limited
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