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hippas are abundant, and at least eleven species of lemurian 

 monkeys were found. The carnivorous animals discovered 

 number eleven species, some of which were as large as the 

 jaguar, or larger. They are all quite distinct from living 

 genera excepting one genus, which is related to the Asiatic 

 civet. Some very small insectivora were also found, one of 

 which is not larger than a small shrew. The waters of the 

 lake abound in turtles, crocodiles, and gar-fishes. 



A STRANGE RACE OF PEOPLE DISCOVERED IN INDIA. 



The report of the Indian Trigonometrical Survey contains 

 matter of exceptional ethnological interest in its account of 

 an odd people living in the hill jungles of the western Ghats, 

 to the southwest of the Polanei Hills. Stories had been 

 heard of a strange dwarfish people in the southwestern cor- 

 ner of the Tinnevelly district, but it was not until recently 

 that any thing definite was known about them, when Mr. 

 Bond, a member of the survey, secured an interview with a 

 man and woman. Of these the man was supposed by Mr. 

 Bond to be twenty-five, and the woman eighteen years old. 

 The man is four feet six inches high 5 twenty-six and a quarter 

 inches round the chest, and eighteen and a half inches hori- 

 zontally round the head over the eyebrows. He has a round 

 head, coarse, black, woolly hair, and a dark-brown skin. The 

 forehead is low and slightly retreating; the lower part of 

 the face projects like the muzzle of a monkey ; and the mouth, 

 which is small and oval, with thick lips, protrudes about an 

 inch beyond his nose. He has short bandy-legs, a compara- 

 tively long body, and arms that extend almost to his knees. 

 The back, above the hips, is concave, making the buttocks 

 appear to be much protruded. The hands and fingers are 

 dumpy, and always contracted, so that they can not be made 

 to stretch out quite straight and flat ; the palms and fingers 

 are covered with thick skin (more particularly the tips of the 

 fingers), and the nails are small and imperfect. The feet are 

 broad, and thick-skinned all over. The hairs of his mustache 

 are of a grayish-white, scanty and coarse, like bristles, and 

 he has no beard. 



The woman is four feet six and a half inches high, twenty- 

 seven inches round the chest above the breasts, and nineteen 

 and a half horizontally round the head above the brows; the 



