… their speed (which was not supposed to exceed 10 m.p.h. normally, and less when the train was heavy or the weather was bad) was regulated by brakesmen known as bank-riders.

Until recently, the gorilla had received a bad press, usually depicted as a fearsomely powerful and aggressive beast. From the time of its discovery by the American medical missionary Thomas Savage, as recently as 1847, the gorilla had been misrepresented. The skull that Savage examined confirmed ancient reports from the fifth century, when the Carthaginians sailed along the west coast of Africa and killed the ‘hairy people – the gorillae’.

In his clear northern flesh and his fair hair was a glisten like sunshine refracted through crystals of ice.

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