Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays . 9m -. ^i-1- ^V5;J- -i*t2j Fig. 10.—The Gorilla, after Wolf. miliar with the history and habits of its interesting congener(Trog. niger, Geoff.), I was able to separate their accountsof the two animals which, having the same locality and a simi-larity of habit, are confounded in the minds of the mass, es- THE MAN-LIKE APES. 63 pecially as but few—siicli as traders to the interior and hunts-men—have ever seen the animal in question. The tribe from which our knowledge of the animal is de-rived, and whose territory forms its habitat, is the
Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays . 9m -. ^i-1- ^V5;J- -i*t2j Fig. 10.—The Gorilla, after Wolf. miliar with the history and habits of its interesting congener(Trog. niger, Geoff.), I was able to separate their accountsof the two animals which, having the same locality and a simi-larity of habit, are confounded in the minds of the mass, es- THE MAN-LIKE APES. 63 pecially as but few—siicli as traders to the interior and hunts-men—have ever seen the animal in question. The tribe from which our knowledge of the animal is de-rived, and whose territory forms its habitat, is the Wlpongioe,occupying both banks of the River Gaboon, from its mouth tosome fifty or sixty miles upward. . If the word Pongo be of African origin, it is probably acorruption of the word Mpongive; the name of the tribe on thebanks of the Gaboon, and hence applied to the region they in-habit. Their local name for the Chimpanzee is Enche-eko, asnear as it can be Anglicised, from which the common term Jocko probably comes. The Mpongwe appellation for its
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