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144 larger than the average man and has arms and chest of enormous proportions. The face and hands are bare and the head and body covered with grizzly grey hair.

A German trader gives the dimensions of a Gorilla that was shot and photographed in Africa near the equator. It measured sixty-six inches in height and weighed five hundred pounds. It took twelve men to carry it from the jungle.

A Gorilla is full grown at fourteen years.

On account of his independent disposition, the Gorilla usually dies very shortly after being captured. They refuse to eat and die of starvation.

Dinah is the third Gorilla to reach the United States. The other two died within a few days. She was taken when a tiny baby and taught the ways of man while she was too little to resist him. She likes mankind and has a real jolly time with us.

After all, the spirit of God is in even the fiercest of his creatures, but it takes understanding and love to know the spirit.