EXPLORATIONS AND ADVENTURES IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA; With accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and the chase (sic) of the Gorilla, Crocodile, leopard, hippopotamus, and other animals.
John Murray. 1861 London, 1st edn, 479pp, folding-map, illus, folding frontis piece of gorilla. In 1859, Paul Du Chaillu, a young explorer of French origin and adopted American nationality, emerged from the jungles of the Gabon with 20 complete specimens of gorillas, an animal virtually unknown outside of West Africa.....
