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ried into camp. The height of the man was four feet ; his hands 

 and feet were small and delicate ; his body was rounded and well- 

 proportioned, and his abdomen protuberant ; the hair on his body 

 was almost furlike, being nearly half an inch in length. On 

 viewing this little man, Stanley rhapsodizes as follows : " Not one 

 London editor could guess the feeling with which I regarded this 

 manikin from the solitudes of the vast African forest. To me he 

 was more venerable than the Memnonium of Thebes. That little 

 body of his represented the oldest types of primitive man, de- 

 scended from the outcasts of the earliest ages — the Ishmaelites of 

 the primitive race — forever shunning the haunts of workers, de- 

 prived of the joy and delight of the home hearth, eternally exiled 

 by their vice to live the life of human beasts in morass and fen 

 and jungle wild. Think of it ! Twenty-six centuries ago his 

 ancestors captured the five young Nasamonian explorers, and 

 made merry with them, at their village on the Niger" (In Darkest 

 Africa). Stanley saw pygmies on several occasions after this, and 

 Emin Pasha gives some interesting measurements in Stanley's 

 book ; so, I think, from the evidence adduced, that we can safely 

 assert that there are tribes of pygmies, both continental and insu- 

 lar, in Asia, and that they are likewise still extant in Africa. 

 All of these little negroes, both in Asia and in Africa, have cer- 

 tain anatomical, physiological, and skeletal characteristics in 

 common, which declare that originally they must have come 

 from the same stock. The true negro is dolichocephalic (long- 

 headed) ; is of an average height as compared with the white 

 race ; his form is not rounded, but, on the contrary, is generally 

 spare and angular ; he is not at all hairy, and a strong, acrid, 

 hircic, and disgusting odor emanates from his person. The ne- 

 grito or pygmy, wherever found, is, on the contrary, brachyce- 

 phalic (round-headed) or subbrachycephalic ; he is far below the 

 average height ; his form is rounded ; his body is generally cov- 

 ered with a soft, downy fell, and no appreciable odor is given off 

 from his person. The true negro has large feet and hands, while 

 in the negrito these members are small aud delicately shaped. 



While looking over some old papers published in New Orleans 

 in 1842, I found a short description of a batch of, presumably, 

 freshly imported slaves. Among them were " six or eight very 

 small negroes, men and women, all of whom were under five feet 



in height. Who ran in this cargo is not known, but Mr. has 



the disposal of them." An old bill of sale, now in the possession 

 of Mr. Wolfgang Werner, of Savanna.h, dated April 2.'), 1810, 

 gives a description of two adult slaves, male and female, in 

 which the height of the male is declared to be " four feet six 

 inches (4 ft. in.), and the female four feet three inches (4 ft. 

 ;3 in.)." Finally, in the possession of the Armistede family, of 



