“This gorilla is a young, male specimen, probably two years old, and has reconciled himself to captivity and to intercourse with men with no great difficulty. A long, slender iron chain is fastened round his neck, which gives him plenty of room to move about; but for the greater part of the day he sits in a cask, and makes himself very comfortable in the straw. He is very susceptible to cold, wind, and rain, and a thick sail-cloth is wrapped round the cask at night. He generally adopts a squatting position, with his arms folded across his breast, and he is always observant of surrounding objects. He always seats himself so as to have nothing at his back, but to keep his enemies before him. When asleep, he stretches himself at full length on his back or side, using one hand as a kind of pillow; and he never sleeps like other apes, in a squatting position. He goes upon all-fours with the soles of his hindhands on the ground, while the forehands are closed, so that he goes upon the knuckles, and he has the lateral gait characteristic of the species. At this moment he suffers terribly from the so-called dissous or sand-fly; both his forehands are full of blisters, which contain the eggs of this annoying little insect. “In any attempt to transport the gorilla, the question of food is necessarily the most important. We have already offered him rice, bread, milk, etc., such things as may be obtained on board ship, as well as in Europe, but with indifferent success. He has occasionally eaten some bread, and has taken ship’s biscuit more readily, and once he ate some rice, but for the most part he does not touch it. His favourite food is a red fruit, very common here, of which he eats the inner kernel; he is likewise fond of bananas and oranges, and above all, of sugar-cane, which he takes from my hand with evident pleasure, and chews. He will also take a glass of water from my hand, carry it steadily to his mouth, and drink it up. Only on rare occasions, when he was much excited, I have heard him utter a growling noise; generally he is quite dumb.” This animal died on the voyage to Europe, and its body, preserved in rum by Pansch and Bolau, was used by me in some of the researches of which I have given an account.