1888.] on the Pygmy Baces of Men. 281 



two individuals of a savage race have been so much honoured by the 

 attentions of the scientific world. First at Cairo, and afterwards in 

 Italy, Tebo (or Thibaut) and Chairallah, as they were named, were 

 described, measured, and photographed, and have been the subjects 

 of a library of memoirs, their bibliographers including the names of 

 Owen, Panceri, Cornalia, Mantegazza, Giglioli and Zannetti, Broca, 

 Hamy, and de Quatrefages. On their arrival in Italy, they were 

 presented to the king and queen, introduced into the most fashionable 

 society, and finally settled down as members of the household of 

 Count Miniscalchi Erizzo, at Verona, where they received a 

 European education, and performed the duties of pages. 



In reply to an inquiry addressed to my friend Dr. Giglioli, of 

 Florence, I hear that Thibaut died of consumption on January 28th, 

 1883, being then about twenty-two years of age, and was buried in 

 the cemetery at Verona. Unfortunately no scientific examination of 

 the body was allowed, but whether Chairallah still lives or not I have 

 not been able to learn. As Giglioli has not heard of his death, he 

 presumes that he is still living in Count Miniscalchi's palace. 



One other specimen of this race has been the subject of careful 

 observation by European anthropologists — a girl named Saida, 

 brought home by Romolo Gessi (Gordon's lieutenant), and who is 

 still, or was lately, living at Trieste as servant to M. de Gessi. 



The various scattered observations hitherto made are obviously 

 insufficient to deduce a mean height for the race, but the nearest 

 estimate that Quatrefages could obtain is about 4 feet 7 inches for the 

 men, and 4 feet 3 inches for the women, decidedly inferior, therefore, 

 to the Andamanese. With regard to their other characters, their hair 

 is of the most frizzly kind, their complexion lighter than that of most 

 Negroes, but the prognathism, width of nose, and eversion of lips 

 characteristic of the Ethiopian branch of the human family are 

 carried to an extreme degree, especially if Schweinfurth's sketches can 

 bo trusted. The only essential point of difference from the ordinary 

 Negro, except the size, is the tendency to shortening and breadth of 

 the skull, although it by no means assumes the " almost spherical " 

 shape attributed to it by Schweinfurth. 



Some further information about the Akkas will be found in the 

 work, just published, of the intrepid and accomplished traveller, in 

 whose welfare we are now so much interested, Dr. Emin Pasha, 

 Gordon's last surviving officer in the Soudan, who, in the course of 

 his explorations, spent some little time lately in the country of the 

 Monbuttu. Here he not only met with living Akkas, one of whom he 

 apparently still retains as a domestic in his service, and of whose 

 dimensions he has sent me a most detailed account, but he also, by 

 watching the spots where two of them had been interred, succeeded 

 in obtaining their skeletons, which, with numerous other objects of 

 great scientific interest, safely arrived at the British Museum in 

 September of last year. I need hardly say that actual bones, clean, 

 imperishable, easy to be measured and compared, not once only, but 



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