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PYGMIES AND FOREST NEGROES 



In short, it would seem to the present writer that there is at present 

 no evidence of any more relationship between the forest Pygmies of 



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276. A PYGMY WOMAN FROM MBOGA, WEST OF SEMLIKI 



Equatorial Africa and the desert Pygmies of South-Western Africa 

 than the fact that both are early branches of the Negro stem which 

 probably diverged simultaneously at a remote period from the Ethi- 

 opian stock — sharing a few similar features in common — the one , to 



