The Pygmy Flint Age in Lincolnshive. ey r6y 
Nasamonians were captured and carried off by the Pygmy Tribe 
and led across extensive marshes, and finally came to a town 
where all the men were the height of their conductors and black 
~ complexioned under the middle height.” 
Homer’s Illiad, Book III., Line g, refers to Pygmy Nations. 
Aristotle calls them Troglodytal—which would seem to 
‘indicate that they were Cave Dwellers in that age. Homer and 
Aristotle both place them near the sources of the Nile. _ 
Pliny, Book VI, 19, and Philostratus Vit Apoll Tz III., 47, 
__and others, place them in India, where in modern days many 
thousands of Pygmy Flints have been found. 
The representation of Pygmy People is frequently met with 
on Greek Vases. 
After 2,000 years of literary silence about Pygmy People, 
modern travellers like Captain Harrison, have brought over from 
the Ituri Forest, Pygmy People, and exhibited them in all parts 
of England. 
Smatt Dark CoLourREn PEOPLE UNDER THE MIDDLE HEIGHT. 
| Major Powell Cotton, only this year 1907, gives his experience 
of life among the Pygmies of the Congo Forest, and describes 
_ them as “Small dark coloured people under the Middle Height.” 
Dr. A. F. R. Wollaston, also this year has returned to 
civilization through the Congo Forest, and the volcanic region of 
_ Mfumbiro, and says the tops of the extinct volcanoes are covered 
_ with dense bamboo, and inhabitated by a Pyginy Race. 
In Central Mexico we have relics of a Pygmy People. ‘The 
_ dried head of one being offered in Mr. Steven’s London auction 
room this year. 
The last surviving Aztecs, a very diminutive people, I 
remember to have seen exhibited in Manchester 30 years ago. 
_ All these instances point to Diminutive or Pygmy Races of 
Men scattered over the world—and in the flint implements left 
behind by these Pygmy People on the Scunthorpe Floor we have, 
a hope, a fitting subject for the Naturalists of the Lincolnshire 
Naturalists’ Union to study for some years to come. 
