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Title: The River Congo from its mouth to Bólobó; with a general description of the natural history and anthropology of its western basin
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: London, S. Low, Marston & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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tate—were in theuninhabited Inga country, between Vivi and Isangila, inwhich district I have frequently seen a large brownCercopithecus, whose species I could not determine, thatmakes a great unwieldy nest or platform of sticks on thehigher branches of the trees, and sits on it, watching thepasser-by. I have also been able to identify the existenceof several well-known West African species by skinsworn by the natives, or brought for sale. In this way Ihave ascertained the presence of the beautiful Dianamonkey,* the Pluto,t the grivet,J the sooty mangabey,§and the Colobus\ It is possible that all West African * Ceropithecus Diana. f 0. Pluto. % C. griseo-virdis. § Cercocebus fuliginosus. ;; Colobus Angolensis. NATURAL HISTORY. 259 genera are represented on the Congo, but they certainlydo not show themselves in any abundance. About themouth of the Congo, in the marshy forest country,monkeys seem to be much more common than up theriver, to judge by the numbers brought for sale by the
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A GALAGO. natives. Here I have seen in captivity many mandrills(Papio maimon) and drills (P. leucophceus). At the DutchHouse in Banana there is, or was at the time of my visit,an admirable collection of West African monkeys, in-cluding some very fine male and female mandrills. AtStanley Pool I have heard of baboons * being seen, and* Probably Papio Sphinx. s 2 260 A JOURNEY UP THE RIVER CONGO. the natives of Ki-rnpoko tell strange tales of large man-like apes in the interior. The gorilla and chimpanzee,which are entirely absent from the Lower Coogo, probablyapproach the Upper river above the falls. Certainlysome large anthropoid ape is known to the Ba-teke andBa-yansi, for they recognised with loud cries an engravingof the gorilla, and said frequently that he was found onthe north bank of the river. This has been repeatedlytold me by natives of Bolobo (who in speaking of theanthropoid ape used the word ngina), by chancevisitors at Msuata, and also at Ki-mpoko and other placeson Stanle

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