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...black, that Stanley was a murderer, that Rhodes, drunk on prickly-pear brandy, had to be rescued from the crocodile. Employed for many years by the English firm (Hatton & Cookson) which sent "Horn" to Africa, Puleston declares that the recorded exploring expeditions, river charting, native battles, elephant hunts, "gorilla purveys," and rescue of a captive English girl, were impossible for any young employe, virtually a desk-bound office boy, of Hatton & Cookson. Unfortunately "Horn" lays claim to these experiences during his term of employ by that prosaic firm-a term which Employe Puleston computes as three to six years rather...
Surrounded by friends, Miss Congo, young female gorilla, passed away last week at the John Ringling estate, Sarasota, Fla. For three years she had lived in the U. S., and although her friends were many, she remained always solemn, quiet; some said homesick for the sunny slopes near Lake Kivu in Belgian Congo, where she had been captured. The immediate cause of death was colitis, an intestinal disease often contracted by man, but not often fatal...
...Other scientists were equally interested. A year and a half ago, Dr. Adolph Hans Schultz, anatomist of Johns Hopkins University, wrote to Dexter Fellowes of the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus, asking for Miss Congo's body when she died. Life then seemed just beginning for the growing gorilla girl. She lived on the Ringling estate waiting to grow up; then to step into a feature part on the Ringling program. Last week scientists at Johns Hopkins University waited eagerly for her dead body. They would dissect it thoroughly; study it from the point of view of evolution, comparative...
...Gorillas may languish in captivity but they do not necessarily die. Every death has its legitimate biological cause; homesickness and heartache are not included. This is equally true of all other inmates of zoo & circus. It has never been demonstrated that wild animals will die of captivity alone. Climate, food, disease are the three most powerful agents of death. Gorillas are much happier in southern lands, although they often adapt themselves to northern conditions. The New York Zoological Park has entertained gorillas for considerable lengths of time before sending them south; the Philadelphia Zoological Park has a grave gorilla...
...mother hear so much about what a terrible criminal I am. It's getting too much for them and I'm just sick of it all myself. . . . Today I got a letter from a woman in England. Even over there I'm known as a gorilla.† She offered to pay my passage to England if I'd kill some neighbors she's been having a quarrel with. . . . "I wish all my friends and enemies a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. That's all they'll get from me this year...