Strange Pigmy Race.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7874, 17 July 1905, Page 4

Strange Pigmy Race.

L o - —- * ' !<«.••! Harrison, who has just re- = ' l ' l.ondon after a four I. i< expedition tn the Congo Fore , ,;vi., interesting facts con- ' : tin- pigmy denizens of the ' V ix ol whom he has brought ; ■ (.airo. Apart from the pigr. iM-l Harrison says tliere is f' - , of human life in the forest. 1 , . ' pigmies do not penelrjilc ti>- -:oir than aboui two days inio .l. (re,m s. and white men do not I ?;' '!' are sen! lo linr.. . i i ople by means oi a pigmy ft I ! s '" and who was b&' ' "lonel Harrison's parly, anw - 1 approach of a white -It I explaining tbo object of his V • " ,U|1!I «I« I Trained Iheir 1 1 ' > Ihe colonel, " 1 iiry * <juiie liiendly, and eventually ! ' 1 four men and two wo!:JJ. ; ■ .i,| :iiteere<J to come wifli imL ' They frorly comiuctrfl t" 1 'i in.'ir litile villages, and al P 1 ■ ■ '"i-'* erected leafy structure-, li"* "'i'"» I slept. Tliry are of an ex l ini ly low order of intelligence. ai*r know nothing of what goes -<H ~ ■!!!(,, I l hem. They seem to have iS" i<-ii .-!<>ns instincts, and possess I*" ' a Supreme Whk. Their !*'•'' i'eigli! is from four feet to t*" • in i lliree and .andicurir\.; '•""gli, as a rule the women a Mi r 11, an the men. The women "■ ,l 1 " In lter physical dcrelopW A sirikinj characteristic of f" '"• "I' 1 '" ' s Hieir ettraorrlinary ' ■ '"'7 will sit for hours withOK '*r; l 11 a word. They are noil J' ;.i d their only wealth is in p The number of spears dc- •••' '!«•' number of wi>es these nflord. They are practi- • nud'_' The women's only clolh- ' ai, w leaves, while the men's i' "insists ol a scrap of skin Iwa ' st - Their wliole per- '■' "'Kiiiirs consist of a poisonI'oi. The pigmies are fear- -■ or two and an old clay is-, and will boldly attack . ti nt hv rushing up and planti a poisontil spear in Ihe brute, t*" t-a: like animals, eveir gnawing ► bones ol their prey. !