# Anthropoid apes

Author: Hartmann, Robert, 1831-1893

Genre: Category: History - Ancient

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75484

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Anthropoid+apes+Hartmann&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Our first acquaintance with the great anthropoid apes dates from the times of remote antiquity. The West Coast of Africa, which is the abode of these animals, was known to the Carthaginians as early as B.C. 500. In B.C. 470 Hanno set out with sixty fifty-oared galleys, laden with colonists and merchandise, on a grand expedition across Morocco to Upper Guinea. The object in view was partly mercantile, partly undertaken with the purpose of establishing a colony. It seems that at that time pioneering expeditions had previously taught them how far the coast was adapted for colonization. The Carthaginians met with “_gorillai_” on the lower range of the mountains of the Isle of Sherboro, and in...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/anthropoid-apes-75484/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/anthropoid-apes-75484/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/anthropoid-apes-75484/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/anthropoid-apes-75484/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/anthropoid-apes-75484/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/anthropoid-apes-75484/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/anthropoid-apes-75484/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/anthropoid-apes-75484/chapters/7/index.md)