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Show 48 . the sound of the first vowel, and slightly sounding the second. The habitat of the Enge-ena is the interior of lower Guinea, whilst that of the Enche-eko is nearer the sea-board. Its height is about five feet; it is disproportionately broad across the shoulders, thickly covered with coarse black hair, which is said to be similar in its arrangement to that of the Enche-eko; with age it becomes gray, which fact has given rise to the report that both animals are seen of different colours. Head.-The prominent features of the head are, the great width and elongation of the face, the depth of the molar region, the branches of the lower jaw being very deep and extending far backward, and the comparative smallness of the cranial portion ; the eyes are very large, and said to be like those of the Enche-eko, a bright hazel; nose broad and flat, slightly elevated towards the root; the muzzle broad, and prominent lips and chin, with scattered gray hairs; the under lip highly mobile, and capable of great elongation when the animal is enraged, then hanging over the chin ; skin of the face and ears naked, and of a dark brown, approaching to black. The most remarkable feature of the head is a high ridge, or crest of hair, in the course of the sagittal suture, which meets posteriorly with a transverse ridge of the same, but less prominent, running round from the back of one ear to the other. The animal has the power of moving the scalp freely forward and back, and when enraged is said to contract it strongly over the brow, thus bringing down the hairy ridge and pointing the hair forward, so as to present an indescribably ferocious aspect. Neck short, thick, and hairy; chest and shoulders 'very broad, said to be fully double the size of the Enche- ekos; arms very long, reaching some way below the knee-the fore-arm much the shortest; hands very large, the thumbs much larger than the fingers. . . . . The gait is shuffling; the motion of the body, which is 49 neve. r upright as in man, but bent .e ll 1orward, is somewhat ro Ing, or from side to side. The arms being longer than the Chimpanzee, it does not stoop as much in walking; like that animal, it makes progression by thrusting its arrns forward, resting the hands on the ground, and then giving the body a half jumping F G . . half swinging mot'o IG. 11.- onlla walkmg (after Wolff.) I n th. . . between them. In IS act It Is said not to flex the fingers, as does the Chim-panzee, resting on its knuckles, but to extend them, makin a fulcrum ~f t~e. hand. Wheu it assumes the walking pos~ ture, to w hwh It Is said to be much inclined, it balances its huge body by flexing its arms upward. The y 1I· ve I· n bands, but are not so numerous as the Chim-panzees: the females generally exceed the oth . numb M . er sex In er. y Informants all agree in the assertion that but one adult male is seen in a band; that when the young males grow up, a contest takes place for mastery and the t t b 1 ·n· ' s ronges , y o Ing and driving out the others, establishes himself as the head of the community." Dr. Savage repudiates the stories about the Gorillas carrying off women and vanquishing elephants, and then adds-th" Th;ir dwelli.ngs, if they may be so called, are similar to ose o the Chimpanzee, consisting simply of a few sticks and leafy branches, supported by the crotches and limb f tre"e s.. they a:ffio rd n~ sh e1 t er, and are occupied only at nigs hot. They are exceedingly ferocious and al wa ffi . . their hab · t . ' c ys o ens1ve 1n . I s, never running from man, as does th Ch' - panzee Th b. e 1m nev . ey are o Jects of terror to the natives) and are er encountered by them except on the defensive. The few E |
