Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . few minutes, the limbs moved about in a struggling way,and then all was quiet-^-death had done its work, and I had leisure toexamine the huge body. It proved to be five feet eight inches high, andthe muscular development of the arms and breast showed what immensestrength it had possessed. My men, though rejoicing at our luck, immediately began to quarrel,about the apportionment of the meat—
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . few minutes, the limbs moved about in a struggling way,and then all was quiet-^-death had done its work, and I had leisure toexamine the huge body. It proved to be five feet eight inches high, andthe muscular development of the arms and breast showed what immensestrength it had possessed. My men, though rejoicing at our luck, immediately began to quarrel,about the apportionment of the meat—for they really eat this saw that we should come to blows presently if I did not interfere, andtherefore said I should myself give each man his share, which satisfiedall. As we were too tired to return to our camp of last night, we deter-mined to camp here on the spot, and accordingly soon had some shel-ters erected and dinner going on. Luckily, one of the fellows shot adeer just as we began to camp, and on its meat I feasted while my menate gorilla. I noticed that they very carefully saved the brain, and was told thatcharms were made of this—charms of two kinds. Prepared in one way,.. TERRIBLE COMBAT WITH A GORILLA. (653) 654 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. the charm gave the wearer a strong hand for the hunt, and in another itgave him success with women. This evening we had again gorilla sto-ries—but all to the same point already mentioned, that there are gorillasinhabited by human spirits. The young athletic Negroes, in their ivory hunts, well know the hab-its of the gorilla. He does not, like the lion, sullenly retreat on seeingthem, but swings himself rapidly down to the lower branches, courtingthe conflict, and clutches at the foremost of his enemies. The hideousaspect of his visage, his green eyes with their glaring fire, his openmouth and fierce-looking teeth,*the savage hand-like claws which formthe end of his lower extremities, all render him an object of ter
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