“_Ntyii_ ’e one; _njina_ ’e one; all two ’e one, one. _Ntyii_ ’e one mudder; _njina_ ’e one mudder; all two ’e one, one. _Ntyii_ ’e one fader; _njina_ ’e one fader. All two ’e one.” By which the native means to say that the _ntyii_ has one mother, and the _njina_ has one mother, so that the two have two mothers, but both have one father, therefore they are half-brothers. The other version given in denial of this statement is as follows:-- “_Ntyii_ ’e one mudder; _njina_, ’e one mudder. ’E one, one. _Ntyii_ ’e one fader; _njina_ ’e one fader. ’E one, one. All two ’e one, one. _Ntyii_ ’e one mudder; _njina_ ’e one mudder. All two ’e one, one. ’E brudder. _Ntyii_ ’im fader; _njina_ ’im ’e brudder. All two ’e one, one.” The translation is that the _ntyii_ has a mother, and the _njina_ has a mother, which are not the same, but are sisters. The _ntyii_ has a father, and the _njina_ has a father, which are not the same, but are brothers; and therefore the two apes are only cousins, which in the native esteem is a remote degree of kinship. The ape described by Lopez certainly belonged to the territory north of the Congo, which coast he explored, and gave his name to a cape about forty miles south of the equator. It still bears the name Cape Lopez. However, it is probable that at that time most of the low country now occupied by these apes was covered with water; that the lakes of that region were then all embraced in one great estuary, reaching from Ferran Vaz to Nazavine Bay, and extending eastward to the foothills below Lamberene. There is abundant evidence to show that such a state has once existed there, but it is not probable that these apes have ever changed their latitude. The name _soko_ appears to be a local name for the ordinary type of chimpanzee found throughout the whole range of their domain, and known in other parts by other names. In Malimbu the name _kulu_ appears to apply to the same species, while in the southwestern part of their habitat that name, coupled with the verb _kamba_, is confined strictly to the other type. Along the northern borders of the district to which that species belongs, but where he is very seldom found and little known to the natives, he is called by the Nkami tribe _kanga ntyigo_, to distinguish him from the common variety, to which the latter name only is applied. [Illustration: PLAIN AND EDGE OF FOREST IN THE COUNTRY OF THE APES]