Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1894 — African Pigmies. [ARTICLE]

African Pigmies.

Herr Stuhlmann, who has been with Emin Pasha, has given an account of the African pigmies which contains some scientific details not well-known. Their average height is about four feet, their head is round, nose flat, face very pragnathous, hair spiral, woolly, and brown; skin light brown with an indication of yellow; beard scanty, and body covered with a light down. Mentally they are cruel and cunning, with keen senses and thieving propensities. Their language has numerals, and is related to the Wambuba tribes. They wear no ornaments, and do not tattoo the skin, but occasionally bore two holes in the upper lip. They seem to Jhave some religious notions, as thef bury the dead in a particular position. They have also a form of marriage, and cannibalism is not general. Herr Stuhlmann thinks those dwarfs are the remains of a peculiar people who once extended over all Africa and even into Asia. They have childish characteristics, their skeletons are undeveloped, and apparently they are a case of arrested development.—[London Globe.