MONKEY-LIKE AND WOMEN

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1829, 30 April 1888, Page 4

MONKEY-LIKE AND WOMEN

lnfoiirution fa givsn by Co'ar©" r?n Corrtt, a French traveller, concerning b> very wonderful tribe, oich rjiember r.f which possesses a tail. They worship tha heavenly bodies, reptiles, «nd rlvera Tbelr food constitutes raw fiiab, human flaßh being thought a delicacy. This ruco is called the Ghilane tribe They live m a country far beyond thp Senaar, numbering about 40.000. This French traveller, being fn Mecca m 1842, vaittd an emir occasionally. One day he epnke to him about this curious race, telling him how much the Europeans doubted their existence. It turned out that ore of the emir's elavea belocged to this tribe, so that Colonel dia Corret hud an opportunity of seeing cue of these marvellous being*, whiob he> immediately did. The slave's name was BellaU. He possessed a eoft, vevety skin ; his face was repuleivtly ng'y ; hh mouth enormous ; his ear* were loog and deformod ; his height was about five feat ; hia tail was more then three inches long, and aa flexible as that of a m,onkey. Another race of men possessing a characteiistio of the monkey is a ts-iba called the Aniop, who - t inhabit a mountainous district lv Japan. They are completely covered with h»!r, the growth of w.hbh is so thick that they are able to dispense with clothing of any sort. Bat, strange aa this seems, ihero are recorded individual growths of hair which place the above-mentioned tribo m the background. The instance about to be ! related is that of Shwe Maon, a native of j Bjrmah, and bis family. I A Mr Crawford w«a the fmt; to call attention to tbia retnarkabio family having seen them bimeeif. The growth of hair seectiß to hive been hereditary. Shwo Maon i 3 covered complo'ely with hair, which ia very emooth and eiky, and. m colour of a silvery grey, but it varie 3 a l.ttle both m shade and kng:h. iie ha a hair evtn ineido his eara and nostril.}. The length of hair is gru&teat on hia for< .•-' head and cheeks, belita uight inohi'a lo.i^ - on the rest <f hia face it is only about for\c Jnchtß m length ; on the other parts of body the hair varies m length from five to four irchfa and even shorter. He married at the age of 22, and had foor children, of whicn the eldea' j an a youngest died. Only one of the re:r , n i n i c , g two was hairy ; thia was the y ounger. Wben born she on'y had hair over her eara. In dx montha f<ho was covered with a silky down ; and at t ? 4B aoe of twelve months tha had ehag n;i^ R \\ over her body. Later on the « Ba ia family wan again aeeD, Maphoon, f or t h a t wao the girl's name, was married L an( j t & d two Bons ; m thiß case also the , younger only resembled hia mother, an j. a^ begun as his mother before him, bj > havlng taf(B o f hair about his care. Mapho ,n, of course Bow that Bnß waß a woman, was entirely cover ed with hair, varying m shade t length, her ears completely hiddeD m ghe plso wore a moußtßcbe, which waß re pio36rited m her bod \fh' ; n only a more baby< Another of t . eae a j r y epectmena was a woman cilled ' jjadjara Taoleriu. Bat eho differs from t ac ab&ve-mentioned cjbtb on Ecccuat of }j er having a beard which reached do cm to her waist. She was Bo^n la 1665. Charley XII. of France had a hairy womao &s c.ne of his grenadierß Sho was excae Jingly brave and courageous. Taken prisoner al Faltowai m which battle she fought, ehe wna presented to the Cza-» Thia was m 1724. Her beard was then fcur and a half feet long.