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Show 774 SIR HARRY JOHNSTON ON A NEW HORSE. [Nov. 20. " never counted more than 29 together at one time. They go " generally in families-an old patriarch accompanied by several " females and young ones of different sizes. The young ones appear " in early summer, when the females carry them for a few weeks at " their breasts, afterwards on their backs. Nearly every evening in " summer, Monkeys may be seen about 5 P.M. near Ferdinand's " Battery and Devil's Gap, grubbing for roots and playing about the " bushes. They have a sentinel on the look-out while feeding-he " warns them of danger by a noise like the distant bark of a dog. " O n two occasions m y dog (a Scotch Terrier) has been attacked by " the older animals. On several occasions also they have w aited " till the writer and bis dog have arrived on the path below them, " when they have sent down upon them showrers of stones, some " of the size of a cocoanut. The writer has never been personally " attacked by a Monkey, but has known the old males approach " quite close and grin at him." The Monkeys are also said to have occasionally committed great devastation in some of the fruit-gardens near Europa Point, so that the owners have obtained leave to shoot them. But as a rule they are strongly protected by the authorities. A letter was read addressed to the Secretary by Sir Harry Johnston, K.C.B., F.Z.S., dated Fort Portal, Toru, Uganda, August 21st, 1900. Sir Harry stated that he had made an excursion round the southern base of Mount Euwenzori and had crossed the Semliki Eiver halfway between Lake Albert Edward and Lake Albert. He had entered the Great Congo Forest, wThich here comes down to and even crosses the Semliki Eiver. In the forest he had obtained something like proof of the existence of a very remarkable new horse (Equus sp. inc.) which appeared to inhabit the forest. The following passage in Sir Harry Johnston's letter contained his account of this animal:- " Beading through Stanley's ' Darkest Africa' I noticed that he mentions his Dwarf having a name for horse or ass, and stating that such animals were found in their forests. As the ordinary Zebra type of Equine steadily avoids dense woodlands, this statement seemed to m e a curious one. W h e n I entertained for months the pigmy band which bad been captured by a filibustering German (and the restoration of w h o m to their homes was one of m y motives for going into the Congo Free State), I questioned them on this subject and they were very explicit; they told me they called the animal ' 0',Api' (' stands for a gasping sound like an aspirate or Arabic K ) . They described it as being dun-coloured or dark grey over all the upper parts of the body, with stripes on the belly and legs. As soon as I reached the Belgian post of Mbeni I began questioning m y host, w h o at once acknowledged tbe existence of this animal and promised to send m e where I should shoot one. They stated that it frequented the deepest parts of the Forest, went usually in pairs, was dark iron-grey on the upper part of th^ |