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Title: Livingstone's and Stanley's travels in Africa also, the adventures of Mungo Parke, Clapperton, DuChaillu, Baker and other famous explorers, in the land of the palm and the gorilla
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Jones, Charles H
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: New York : Hurst
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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nman. The toes are dividedinto three, groups, soto speak.Inside the great toe, outsidethe little toe, and the threeothers partly united by aweb. As a whole, the footof the gorilla presents agreat likeness to the footof man, and by far more sothan in any other ape. Inno other animal is the footso well adapted for the main-tenance of the erect position.Also, the gorilla is muchless of a tree-climber thanany other ape. The foot inthe gorilla is longer than thehand, as in man, while inthe other apes the foot issomewhat shorter than thehand. The hair on the footcomes to the division of thetoes, and those are slightlycovered with thin hair. The gorilla skeleton, theskull excepted, resembles thebony frame of man morethan that of any other an-thropoid ape. In the formand proportion of the pelvis,the number of ribs, thelength of the arm, the widthof the hand, and the struc-ture and arches of the feet—all these characteristics, andalso some of its habits, appear to place the gorilla nearer to
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