lifted the body and let it fall, then
took up the basket, looked inside and outside of it, raked over the
peelings of the bananas, but could not find anything left to eat.

He began to think, scratching the fur on his head, on his sides, and his
paunch, picking up one thing and then another in an absent-minded way.
And then he appeared to have made up a plan.

Whatever it was, this is what he did. It was still early morning, and
as there was no sign of a sun, it was cold, and human beings must have
been finishing their last sleep. He got up and went straight for the
plantation. On the edge of the banana-grove he heard a cock crow; he
stopped and listened to it; he became angry.

"Some one," he said to himself, "is stealing my bananas," and with that
he marched in the direction where the cock was crowing.

He came to the open place in front of the village, and saw several tall
houses much larger than his own nest; and while he was looking at them,
the door of one of them was opened, and a man came out. He crept
towards him, and before he could cry out the gorilla had squeezed him
until his ribs had cracked, and he was dead; he flung him down, and
entered into the hut. He there saw a woman, who was blowing a fire on
the hearth, and he took hold of her and squeezed her until there was no
life left in her body. There were three children inside, and a bed on
the floor. He treated them also in the same way, and they were all
dead. Then he went into another house, and slew all the people in it,
one with a squeeze, another with a squeeze and a bite with his great
teeth, and there was not one left alive. In this way he entered into
five houses and killed all the people in them, but in the sixth house
lived the boy Kinneneh and his old mother.

Kinneneh had fancied that he heard an unusual sound, and he had stood
inside with his eyes close to a chink in the reed door for some time
when he saw something that resembled what might be said to be half
animal and half man. He walked like a man, but had the fur of a beast.
His arms were long, and his body was twice the breadth and thickness of
a full-grown man. He did not know what it was, and when he saw it go
into his neighbours' houses, and heard those strange sounds, he grew
afraid, and turned and woke his mother, saying,

"Mother, wake up! there is a strange big beast in our village killing
our people. So wake up quickly and follow me."

"But whither shall we fl