Word: gorillas
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...home of the ape and gorilla is in the big forest, three thousand miles long and twenty-five hundred miles wide, situate in the equatorial regions of Africa. In this forest are trees some one hundred and fifty to two hundred feet high, and others even five hundred feet in height. Under these is the vast jungle, impenetrable except as one follows the path of the natives form tribe to tribe...
...marvellous stories, some of pigmies and others of monstrous creatures. These stories, improbable as they seemed, all agreed with one another. Convinced finally that there must be some truth in them, he determined to push on into the forest. There he was so fortunate as to kill a monster gorilla, the first gorilla killed by any white man since Hannibal slew them two thousand five hundred years...
This evening at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre Paul Du Chaillu will lecture on "The Gorilla and other Apes of the Great Equatorial Forest." Mr. Du Chaillu accepted the invitation to speak to members of the University, although he does not usually deliver public lectures on invitation...
HARVARD NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. Paul Du Chaillu, the noted explorer, lectures in Sanders Theatre this evening before the society on "The Gorilla and other Apes of the Great Equatorial African Forest." Any member of the University can obtain two tickets by applying at Thurston's. Admission will be only by ticket until 8 o'clock. when the doors will be opened to the public...
Lecture. The Gorilla and other Apes of the great Equatorial African Forest. Mr. Paul Du Chaillu. Sanders Theatre...