GORILLA HUNTING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 August 1924, Page 8

GORILLA HUNTING.

CM.P.L.) A man who after once killing a riomber of the ape tribes can do so a second time must be callous indeed. May I give an experience? It was a colobus. After being shot it placed its paw over the wound and just looked at me, seeming to ask, “Why have you done it?” Then its mate, with a little one, appeared from some leafy corner, and, coming quite close, told me in unmistakable language the sort of brute I w r as and felt, and finished by pelting me w'ith sticks, A feur days later, at dawn, in' the depths of a Burganda forest, I met a large troop of baboons, strangely enough, in a long column walking two and two', with four old ones acting as monitors. I dodged behind a rock, but the youngsters had seen me, arid apparently were highly amused at .what they saw, but the old ones were sbori after them, and, scolding' them for such a lapse in maimers, by cuffing arid boxing of ears soon had them again in formation, arid they disappeared among the rocks. Very human? Not at all. Had they acted like humans, thiey would have killed and labelled me: “This hideous creature is a specimen of tlite Genus Homo, thought once to have been of arborial habits, but now degenerate.” If the slaughtering of wild life .be not stopped the Genus Homo will soon have all the w'orld to himself, and a horribly dull place it will be.