JUNGLE NEIGHBOURS
GORILLAS WERE MY NEIGHBOURS, hy Fred Merfield (with Harry Miller); Longmans, Green and Co., English price 18/-. HIS book tells of adventures of 20 or more years ago in the French Cameroons where Merfield was a professional hunter. Most of his work was collecting animals for museums, either shooting them himself or buying dead specimens from the natives. He got 115 gorillas during four years spent with the "truculent Mencjim Mey tribe," where his young wife was first introduced to jungle housekeeping. Interesting details are given about gorilla family life, and descriptions \of the horrible gorilla round-ups held by the natives. There is a map and several pages of photographs, but no picture of an adult
live gorilla,
L.J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 924, 26 April 1957, Page 14
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122JUNGLE NEIGHBOURS New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 924, 26 April 1957, Page 14
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