EXCITING COMBAT WITH A GORILLA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9157, 25 March 1893, Page 3

EXCITING COMBAT WITH A GORILLA.

He was not afraid of us. He stood there, and beat his breast with his huge lists till it resounded like an immense drum, which is their mode of offering defiance ; meantime giving vent, to roar after roar, which was the most awful sound ever heard. His eyes began to flash fiercer fire as we stood motionless, on the defensive, and the crest of short hair which stands on the forehead began to twitch rapidly up and down, while his lingo fanes showed as he opened his hideous mouth. And now, truly, he reminded me of nothing but some hellish dream-creature—a being of that infernal order, half man, half beast, which old artists depictured. He advanced a few steps, and 1 felt that dread, strange, feeling, men experience who look death in the face, for me retreat was vain, assistance even if it come will bo too late, like lightning, visions of home, of the dear old mother, aye, of that other face wore precious to me than rubies, my Zillah, flashed across my brain ; but, oh ! the agony, to die like this, and at the hand of a brute. All this was but the work of a moment, the gorilla had stopped just before his rush, and mechanically (or I had somewhat lost all sense of motion), I raised my gun, and with his hot fetid breath upon my face, I fired. With a groan, which had something terribly human in it, and yet was full of brutishness, he fell forward, almost crushing me beneath him, and then lay still, hardly realising that I was saved from a dreadful death. I surveyed the huge carcase, fully eight long, but dead, yes, dead ; and perhaps it is only those who have escaped from the very jaws of death by using Electric Blood Renewer that can measure the traveller's gratitude. This unequalled vegetable medicine is now stocked in New Zealand, and sufferers from all affections of liver, kidney, and stomach should try a bottle while for rheumatism, gout, and kindred diseases a few bottles will do for the complaints what i)u Chaillu's ride bullet did for the gorilla. Three shillings and sixpence is the cost of a bottle, which contains a week's supply, enough in many eases to give proof of its superiority over all others, so be sure and ask for Electric Blood Renewer.