The native hunter stalks the gorilla and kills him with his firearm. Savage states that the hunter awaits the approach of his prey with levelled gun, and if he cannot take a sure aim he allows the animal to seize the barrel of the gun, and fires when, as is commonly the case, he tries to carry it to his mouth. If the weapon does not go off, the barrel, which is not strongly made, is crushed between his teeth. When hunters of the Ogōwē are attacked by a gorilla, they will sometimes make a last attempt to defend themselves from the animal’s fury with the axe used for felling trees. Buchholz told me that he had seen the skin of a male gorilla which was injured in the region of the arms, probably in this way. But such a duel generally ends in the death of the hunter. Pechuël-Lösche talked with two Loango hunters who had killed gorillas. They stated that they had not gone in search of the dreaded animals, but that they chanced to encounter them in the forest. Only if they met a solitary animal did they venture to creep close to it and shoot it, and then they escaped as quickly as possible in order to be safe from the fury of any of its companions which might be lingering near. After several hours they would return in a larger company to carry off their prey. In Loango the flesh of these animals was not eaten; but, according to Ford and Savage, it was cooked by the negroes, in the Gaboon territory, and constituted one of their favourite dainties. Up to this time Europeans have been rarely successful in killing gorillas. Du Chaillu asserts that he has been one of the luckiest, but this assertion has been disputed by others. Fruitless attempts were made by Winwood Reade, de Compiègne, Buchholz, Lenz, and de Brazza. In the letters quoted above from Koppenfels to Bastian, he mentions that he had already, up to March, 1874, four gorillas. In the number of the _Gartenlaube_ shot which we have mentioned above, he describes some of his hunting adventures, and goes into details scarcely adapted for the readers of such a publication. On December 24, 1874, Koppenfels, accompanied by a young Galloa, was on the shores of Lake Eliva, observing a gorilla family, consisting of the parents and two young ones. The female climbed up an iba, or wild mango tree, and shook down its fruits. The male went to the water’s edge to drink, and was then shot by Koppenfels, while the female and her young swiftly escaped. Another time this traveller was in the neighbourhood of Busu, in the Bakalayan country, which is on the Eliva Sanka, and is bounded on the south-east by the mountains of Aschangolo and by extensive primeval forests. It was here that he observed the troop of chimpanzees and gorillas of which we have already spoken, feeding on the kola nuts, of which they are very fond. He shot a large and a small specimen of the chimpanzee; and again in the Aschangolo mountains he shot a male gorilla, 1090 mm. in height. The bullet pierced the animal’s heart, and