When chimpanzees are provoked they strike the ground with their hands, but they do not, as the gorilla does, beat their breasts with the fist. They generally take to flight at the sight of men, but if driven to extremity, or wounded, they defend themselves with their hands and teeth. The direct conflict with a full-grown chimpanzee demands, in order to obtain the mastery over him, all the strength and presence of mind of a strong and courageous man. I shall always remember the large female animal at Hamburg, which was able to stand up against a powerful man. Great daring was required to control the fury of Mafuca. The Soko also, which Livingstone found in Manyema, to the west of Lake Tanganyika, bravely defended itself, when attacked. The native hunters shoot chimpanzees with firearms or arrows, and also kill them with javelins. The Niam-Niam tribe go in hunting-parties of twenty or thirty men, to track the bam in the woodland galleries so closely interwoven by the liana, and when they have thrown nets over these, they kill the animals with lances. Their flesh is eaten in different parts of Africa, and their skulls sometimes serve for fetishes. In a Niam-Niam village, by the stream Diamwonu, Schweinfurth saw the skulls of men, chimpanzees, sea-cat monkeys, baboons, antelopes, wild boars, etc., hung on the stump of a tree. In the Gaboon district, as we have already said, the chimpanzee is called Nschégo, Nschiego, Ndjéko, and the same names serve for the people of Mpongwe, Galloa, Kamma, and Orungu. By the people of Aschira and Malimba the animal is called Kulu. The natives of Niam-Niam call the chimpanzee Ranja or Mandjaruma. The traders who speak Arabic adopt the name Bam or M’Bam.