MAN'S DWARF FOREFATHERS.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17105, 29 March 1921, Page 10

MAN'S DWARF FOREFATHERS.

,— T _ . . A Roman Catholic missionary/ Br Leonard Vandenbergh, lias recently 1 !", found in Central Afripa a rata of human,j| pigmies, which at least o/le leading a anthropologist holds to be . unalteredil survivals of the anoestore of all Irnng f men. Tho discovery is not new; others I before tho missionary , have come across A these pigmies, but so wild are they and % so vast 'and * aro "the Congo ' forests in which dwell that scarcely half-a-dozen white men have over &een one of the pigmies, though thoy have dwelt'there since the beginnings of mankincj. •• J | Dr. Albert Churchward, who saw one o swinging through the trees and nearly | • ••shot- it. thinking .-.it wnA a/ monkey, states that their brain capacity is about rj one-third that of modern man, and J that they have a vocabulary of from 50 .to, 100 words, besides, a, variety ,0?;: feigns.'' In his view tbe'y are'survivors of the original stock. From thispigmj' race was evolved "a" slightly less prnmtivo pigmy, the Itusia, then the Bushj man and Hottentot and the Masate-, negro, and his later development, thfl § Nilotic negro, - from whom came thd|? modern negro.. Traces,of these tral dwarfs are also to be found, stateu : | Dr. Churchward, in the oJfe Bolivia, China, Sinm, and New In his view nil living races ni - e descends | ed from this one dwarf stock. " '>s r=^ \