IV.] THE AFRICAN NEGRO: II. . 119 



while the theory of the general uniformity of the physical type has 

 broken down at some other points. Thus the Dume, 

 south of Gallaland, discovered by Dr Donaldson 



Smith 1 in the district where the Doko Negritoes reputed 



Dwarfs. 



had long been heard of, and even seen by Antoine 

 d'Abbadie in 1843, were found to average five feet, or more than 

 one foot over the mean of the true Negrito. D'Abbadie in fact 

 declared that his "Dokos" were not pygmies at all 2 , while 

 Donaldson Smith now tells us that "doko" is only a term of 

 contempt applied by the local tribes to their "poor relations." 

 "Their chief characteristics were a black skin, round features. 

 woolly hair, small oval-shaped eyes, rather thick lips, high cheek 

 bones, a broad forehead, and very well formed bodies" (p. 273). 



The expression of the eye was canine, "sometimes timid and 

 suspicious-looking, sometimes very amiable and merry, and then 

 again changing suddenly to a look of intense anger." Pygmies, 

 he adds, " inhabited the whole of the country north of Lakes 

 Stephanie and Rudolf long before any of the tribes now to be 

 found in the neighbourhood ; but they have been gradually killed 

 off in war, and have lost their characteristics by inter-marriage 

 with people of large stature, so that only this one little remnant, 

 the Dume, remains to prove the existence of a pygmy race. 

 Formerly they lived principally by hunting, and they still kill a 

 great many elephants with their poisoned arrows" (p. 274 5). 



Some of these remarks apply also to the Wandorobbo, another 

 small people who range nearly as far north as the 

 Dume, but are found chiefly farther south all over r0 bboHunters~ 

 Masailand, and belong, I have little doubt, to the 

 same connection. They are the henchmen of the Masai nomads, 

 whom they provide with big game in return for divers services, 

 and hold with them much the same amicable relations as the 

 little Neolithic folk held with their tall neighbours in central 

 Europe. 



Those met by Mr W. Astor Chanler were also " armed with 



1440 c.c. Cf. the Akka measured by Sir W. Flower (1372 c.c.), and his 

 Andamanese (1128), the highest hitherto known being 1200 (Virchow). 



Through Unknown African Conn fries, &c., 1897. 

 - Bill. Soc. Geogr. xix. p. 440. 



