Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1928, Page 10

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This trail was followed for five more days, when the family was Jocated. It consisted of a male and four females, one of which carried the | little fellow, then about 22 months old ; i Droop’s Music cow. th | and still nursing at her breast, in her | arms. House | " The hunters foliowed the fami 4 3 | pitching camp each night within a few 1300 G St. Steinway Pianos || hundred yards of their bivouac and fol- | lowing them as soon as they started out in the morning. The gorilla is not MAYBE THIS WILL CORRECT "CommoN AISLUNDERSTANDING THOSE who have heard the Ortho- phonic Victrola say it js the greatest musical instrument of all time. They will tell you it is ALL musical instru- ments in one, including the human voice. They will tell you that nothing takes its place . . . nothing . . . because the music it brings can be had in the home in no other way. One minute it is the Philadelphia Orchestra, with Leopold Stokowski conducting, and perhaps saying a few words to you. Five minutes later it is Lucrezia Bori or Maria Jeritza singing something you have heard her sing at the opera. Presto! . . . and George Olsen or the Coon-Sanders Night Hawks are playing a dance-program that never signs off till you say. But there is some misunderstand- ing that is shutting out this incompa- rable entertainment to thousands of people who want it. These are the people who think such an instrument is beyond their means. Or that it at least “costs a lot of money.” Nothing is farther from VICTOR TALKING MACHINE CO THE NEW ORTHOPHONIC HONE US Corner Twelfth & G Sts. " UNLOKDED AT 700 One of Two Now in U. S.,| | manufacturer, who financed the Smith- | | Cameron, Mr. Buck proceeded for five | afraid of man, but will not attack him unless man attacks first. For a few days the ape family looked with sus- picion on the men, but finally came to regard them as of no account. Gorillas March Forward. The jungle was pervaded by an eternal twilight into which only stray rays of sunshine penetrated. It was intensely dense. All day long the gorillas would march forward, the men following them. The party completely lost and was guided only the compass. They procecded, with the female with the baby in her arms in advance. Be- hind her came the three other females, | and, last of all, the old male, the hi band and father, walked as a rTear | guard. Every night they halted. The | mother and baby would climb into a {low tree, find a_convenient crotch and go to sleep. The three other females | would sleep in the same tree, a little | lower. The male would stretch him- self at the foot of the tree and sleep with “one eye open.” With such a system of protecting the infant, the only possibility was to keep on the trail until the family got care- less and allowed the female with the | baby to drop behind. This they were likely to do when they had a thorough contempt for the men. | “The trail was followed for 17 days. Finally the female got about 50 yards ! behind. The others were not watching her. One of pigmies shot her with poisoned arrow. This was no mor an a pin-prick, Mr. Buck says. She elt it so slightly that she didn't cry | out to attract the attention of the oth- ers, evidently thinking it was no more | gorf than a briar scratch. Poison Works Slowly. i ‘ The poison in her blood worked very slowly. For an hour they followed wrong with her. It was necessary to use a poison which would not make her realize the coming of death and cry out. At last she dropped, the infant still cling to her. A pigmy dashed for- ward and knocked her on the head. At the same time Mr. Buck pulled off his shirt—which he wore so that it could be pulled off instantly because |51 the danger of army ants—and shoved |it ‘into the baby's mouth, effectively | gagging him. | The other gorillas proceeded stolid- | |1y ahead, without realizing what was | happening to the mother. | | Tt required about four days to tame | | the little gorilla. He still was nursing. | A native woman was hired as a wet | nurse. { | He was taken away, however, and he | 2 |did not seem to mind it, but drank | readily enough from a tin pan. He | preferred a tin pan which was battered | | up, probably because it reminded him | |of the irregular little pools from which | his mother had taught him to drink | water. Becomes Used to Captors. He soon_became used to his human | captors. The pigmies had eaten his | mother and would have eaten him if | they had a chance. He was given balls and, old tin pans to play with. They | |still are his favorite playthings. 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