Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo10amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ACCOUXT OF THE MUSFMM'S COX GO EXPEDITION 169 unusual in a white man's eyes that no adequate preparation could be made. ^Yhen the report of January 5 was sent, the active work on heavy game had not commenced. The expedition was on the point of en- gaging experienced native hunters and the very keenest pygmies to be found. It was in the district of large game where the trumpeting of elephants could be heard from the camp, and elephants' trails — deep round footprints " as if someone for amusement had gone about sinking a bucket into the mud and ))ulling it out again" — were common along tlie river and in the banana planta- tions. For the most part heavy game in Central Africa is protected by law and is relati\ely abundant, not near extinction as in South Africa. The square-mouthed or so- called white rhinoceros, however, is not common anywhere in Africa. It is practically extinct in South Africa, is rare in the narrow strip of country west of the Nile — the Lado of Cen- tral Africa — and is wholly unknown in all other parts of the continent. The square-mouthed rhinoceros is on the average larger than the com- mon African rhinoceros, has a double hump in the region of the neck and a head that differs wholly in shape from that of the common form, one striking point of difi'erence being a square upper lip instead of a pointed overhanging one. Also, the expedition was in the land of the okapi, with the hope of getting specimens for a group in the ^luseum. Less than ten years ago the world was stirred by the discovery of a new animal in the northern part of the Congo forest, ohapi, the natives called it. Stanley had gained from the flwarfs some hint of it. He thought it related to the horse, in spite of the anomaly of a grass-eating animal living in forests. When actually seen, the okapi was found very wonderful: a shy animal, standing as high as a stag, and feeding on the leaves and twigs of trees,
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MAMBUTI PYGMY AVAKUBI Congo pygmies, having the height of ten-year-old children, are shy, vin- dictive when angered, keen in hunting. Many photographs and 24 measure- ments of this pygmy have been taken, besides a plaster cast of his face

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