The ape known as "Mafuka," which was exhibited in Dresden in 1875, was also brought from the Loango coast, and it is possible that this is the ape to which the native name _pongo_ really belonged. This specimen in many respects conforms to the description of the _ntyii_ given, but the idea suggested by certain writers that "Mafuka" was a cross between the gorilla and chimpanzee is not, to my mind, a tenable supposition. It would be difficult to believe that two apes of different species in a wild state would cross, but to believe that two that belonged to different genera would do so is even more illogical. I may state here, however, again that some of the Esyira people advance such a theory concerning the _ntyii_, but the belief is not general, and those best skilled in woodcraft regard them as distinct species. To quote, in pidjin English, the exact version of their relationship as it was given to me by my interpreter while in that country, may be of interest to the reader. I may remark, by way of explaining the nature of pidjin English, that it is a literal translation of the native mode of thought into English words. The statement was: "_Ntyii_ be one: _njina_ be one: all two be one, one. _Nytii_ 'e one mudder: _jnina_ 'e one mudder: all two 'e one, one. _Nytii_ 'e one fader: _njina_ all same 'e one fader, 'e one. 'E all two one fader." By which the native means to say that the _nytii_ 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 was as follows: "_Nytii_ 'e one mudder: _njina_ 'e one mudder. 'E one, one. _Nytii_ 'e one fader: _njina_ 'e one fader. 'E be one, one. All two 'e one, one. _Nytii_ 'im mudder, _njina_ 'im mudder. 'E brudder. _Nytii_ 'im fader, _njina_ 'im fader 'e brudder. All two 'e one, one." The translation of this elegant speech is, that the _nytii_ has a mother, and the _njina_ has a mother which are not the same but sisters. The _nytii_ 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, and it still bears the name Cape Lopez. At that time, however, it is probable that 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 Fernan Vaz to Nazareth Bay, and extending eastward to the Foot hills 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.