THE MISSING LINK.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2134, 31 October 1885, Page 2

THE MISSING LINK.

A large company, says a London correspondent, recently attended by. invitation the levee of a very distinguished foreigner indeed. This is gorilla from inner Africa, who has visited thiß country on his way to the United States, where he will be the guest of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia. The animal is said to be the finest specimen imported into Europe. I should compute him to be about the size of Sir William Barcourt after dinner, but he looked a match for Sampson. The brute looked so humiliatingly human that many of us felt our self-conceit oozing out of our finger ends at this parody, which imitated mankind so closely and yet so abominably, His face was not uglier than hundreds one meets. _ I rather thought his ugliness attractive, for the ferocity had a fascination. The whole expression was that of power, and it seemed as if I had seen many such countenances from time to time. But the gorilla fetched more than most of these would bring in market overt, his captor receiving £SOOO and all expenses incurred in securing the prize.