sokos

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

The Human Side of Animals Royal Dixon 1923

Thus it is evident that certain of these wild-creatures -- like the sokos -- have a more correct conception of justice than their human associates, the savages.

The Human Side of Animals Royal Dixon 1923

To this superstition must be referred the reverence shown fetish leopards, hippopotami, crocodiles, sokos (large monkeys of the gorilla type).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

I think it is like comparing the anthropologists with their ancestral sokos. '...

The Personal Life Of David Livingstone Blaikie, William G. 1880

Eating sokos or gorillas must have been a step in the process of teaching them to eat men.

The Personal Life Of David Livingstone Blaikie, William G. 1880

They think, however, that the soko is quite as large and as strong as the gorilla, judging by the specimens shown to them, although they could have decided with greater certainty, if the natives had not invariably brought in the dead sokos disembowelled; as they point out, and as we imagine from Dr. Livingstone's description, the carcase would then appear much less bulky.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

Some Manyuema think that their buried dead rise as sokos, and one was killed with holes in his ears, as if he had been a man.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

Four gorillas or sokos were killed yesterday: an extensive grass-burning forced them out of their usual haunt, and coming on the plain they were speared.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

The flesh of the feet is yellow, and the eagerness with which the Manyuema devour it leaves the impression that eating sokos was the first stage by which they arrived at being cannibals; they say the flesh is delicious.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

They beat hollow trees as drums with hands, and then scream as music to it; when men hear them, they go to the sokos; but sokos never go to men with hostility.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874