Punch,  41 (1861), 115.

Arms and the Man

Anon

Genre:

Poetry, Drollery

Subjects:

Animal Behaviour, Hunting, Controversy


    Noting Paul B Du Chaillu's claim to have shot a gorilla with a rifle-ball that would have killed a 'Man or monkey', points out that John E Gray retorted that 'the man-monkey's wounds in the back are, / And the weapon employed—the long-bow'.



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