DESCRIPTION OF THE DUME PYGMIES. 275 
phants with their poisoned arrows; but by the gradual 
encroachment of other tribes, most of the game in the 
neighborhood of the Dume has been driven away. The 
Dume now number about a thousand souls, and are 
wretchedly poor. They raise a few sheep and goats, 
and cultivate ten acres of land in the Galana valley; 
but being one of the lowest races in the scale of humanity, 
their wants are few, and they do not try to improve their 
condition. 
DUME ORNAMENTS. 
The Bura had provided me with a guide who could 
speak a little Galla, as well as the language used by the 
Dume, and it was from him that I got my information 
concerning the pygmies. About ten years ago the Dume 
were conquered by the Bura, and have since been under 
the rule of the Bura chief, Arshal Shada, so that they have 
lost much of their former war-like spirit. 
I saw only half a dozen spears among them, and about 
as many small round leather shields; but they all carried 
