DESCRIPTION OF THE DUME PYGMIES. 
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but sometimes around the waist. Its chief use was as a 
matting to lie on. With the exception of this one bit of 
skin, which was never in the same spot two hours in suc- 
cession, none of the Dumes wore any clothing whatever. 
They were remarkably uniform in size, reaching about 
five feet in height. I did not measure them accurately, for 
fear of frightening them. ‘Their chief characteristics were 
a black skin, round features, woolly hair, small oval-shaped 
eyes, rather thick lips, high cheek bones, a broad forehead 
DUME WARRIORS. 
but not remarkably receding, and very well formed bodies. 
Their hips were rather broad, and the lumbar vertebra, 
curved a little farther forward than is usual, even in black 
races ; but these features were not very prominent, and did 
not disfigure them, as they do in the case of the Hottentots. 
They reminded me very much of a dog in the expression 
of their eyes, —sometimes timid and suspicious looking, 
sometimes very amiable and merry, and then again chan- 
ging suddenly to a look of intense anger. They had no 
beads of any sort, but had managed to possess themselves 
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