Meaning of soko | Babel Free

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A species of African ape, supposedly a variety of the chimpanzee.

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“A soko alive was believed to be a good charm for rain⟳; so one was caught, and the captor had the ends of two fingers and toes bitten off. The soko, or gorilla, always tries to bite⟳ off these parts, and has been known to overpower a young man and leave⟳ him without the ends of fingers and toes. […] 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.”

“Old hunters and travellers say⟳ that they would rather steal⟳ the child of a native savage than to take⟳ one of the sokos.”

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