Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1899 — Pygmy Unbelievers. [ARTICLE]

Pygmy Unbelievers.

' 4 good story is told by Captain Guy Barrows la his books, “The Land of the Pygmies,” about a white man who was amusing himself by explaining to some African savages, Hie Mobunghl, the wonders of the steam engine and steamship. He drew diagrams on the sand, and the audience listened and looked with apparently intense interest At last be asked his hearers whether they understood. “Yes,” they replied, “they thought they did.” “There was a deep silence,” Captain Borrows s;|ys, “for some time, and then a voice In the center of the crowd expressed the unspoken sentiments of the whole assembly in one emphatic word, uttered in a tone of the deepest' conviction—‘Liar!’ ” The lecturer's thoughts are not recorded.