4 deg.

42': this was a great advance into the interior as compared with Linant in 1827, 13 deg.

30' N., and even on the explorations of Jomard( ?); but it turned when nearly a thousand miles from the sources.
[The subjoined account of the soko--which is in all probability an entirely new species of chimpanzee, and _not_ the gorilla, is exceedingly interesting, and no doubt Livingstone had plenty of stories from which to select.

Neither Susi nor Chuma can identify the soko of Manyuema with the gorilla, as we have it stuffed in the British Museum.
They think, however, that the soko is quite as large and as strong as the gorilla, judging by the specimens shown to them, although they could have decided with greater certainty, if the natives had not invariably brought in the dead sokos disembowelled; as they point out, and as we imagine from Dr.Livingstone's description, the carcase would then appear much less bulky.

Livingstone gives an animated sketch of a soko hunt.] _24th August, 1870._--Four gorillas or sokos were killed yesterday: an extensive grass-burning forced them out of their usual haunt, and coming on the plain they were speared.