. Five hundred fascinating animal stories, with numerous colored plates, illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., etc., ect. . THE CHIMPANZEE. 11 country. I saw his maimed arm and he repeated the same one of the men spoke up: If we kill a gorilla to-morrow,I should like to have a part of the brain for a makes a man so brave as to have a fetich ofgorillas brain. That gives a man a strong heart. Chorus (ofthose who remained awake) Yes; that gives a man a A fetich of the brain of the gorilla is


. Five hundred fascinating animal stories, with numerous colored plates, illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., etc., ect. . THE CHIMPANZEE. 11 country. I saw his maimed arm and he repeated the same one of the men spoke up: If we kill a gorilla to-morrow,I should like to have a part of the brain for a makes a man so brave as to have a fetich ofgorillas brain. That gives a man a strong heart. Chorus (ofthose who remained awake) Yes; that gives a man a A fetich of the brain of the gorilla is said also tohelp its owner in love as well as war. The Chimpanzee. The chimpanzee is a near neighbour ofthe gorilla in Equatorial Africa though he appears to havea more extended range. He is found in Sierra Leone andin the country lying to the north of the river Congo, andaccording to native accounts is gregarious in his habits,travelling in formidable companies, who carry sticks andmake effective use of them. They are said to reachmaturity at nine or ten years of age and to attain a heightof from four to five feet. Like the gorillas they haveimmensely powerful limbs, and have been


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