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GORILLA HUNTING the dead body fall. This seemed to rouse its rage for it advanced on the rest of the party roaring and beating its chest. When only a few yards from its enemies it rose to its full height, its devilish gray eyes darting glances of hatred. The hunter fired and the bullet passed into the shoulder, and at the same instant the ape charged. Two more carefully aimed shots



were put in without seeming to have any effect at all except that of rousing the brute to still greater fury.

The hunter was now thoroughly frightened, for he realized that unless a vital spot was hurt they would probably all be killed. The gorilla soon recognised the white man as its chief enemy and charged him. The brute came so close that it gripped the rifle barrel and twisted it in its hands as though it were made of lead pipe. The hunter backed away and seizing