Kiamo Forest takes almost twenty days to walk in width and twice as long to travel in length. This mighty forest, which has existed since the very beginning of time, is incredibly old and never before have the aborigines been able to traverse it from beginning to end... Once upon a time, lions struck fear into the surrounding villages, but people drove them away from their homes. As long ago as the memory of the ancestors stretches in the story of times long past, the forest of Kiamo belonged undividedly to the great forest god - the giant black gorilla. The forest god guarded the forest - powerfully and victoriously...