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[seven English inches] shorter than myself. I have seen 

 three other Dokko, all black-like negroes, but with a fine 

 facial angle like the Mozambique natives, and rather small, 

 — \vhat we call trapu in France, but nothing like pigmies. . 

 . . Their forms are the most perfect mezzo-termine between 

 Ethiopians and negroes. They use, according to their own 

 account, the Sorghum vulgar e to make bread, and have a 

 name (elmos), for bread." In another place,* the same tra- 

 veller describes the Dokos as being " tresgroset bien muscles, 

 absolument comma les Sawahily." 



It is necessary to explain, that the word Doko is not to be 

 regarded as the proper name of any particular people. In 

 the Galla language it is an appellative, signifying '• igno- 

 rant," " stupid ;" and it appears to be used in the same in- 

 definite sense as our expression " savage." 



The evident mixing up of monA-ei/s in the description given 

 of these Dokos or savages, may be accounted for in the same 

 way, probably, as a statement made in Sir Gardner Wilkin- 

 son's Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians,\ respect- 

 ing the employment of those animals as domestic servants in 

 Djimma,a country to the south of Abessinia, situated between 

 Enirea and Kaffa. Djimma is also adjoining to Yangaro, 

 which latter country, as I have already mentioned, is called 

 Djdndjaro by the Gallas. In the wars which are continually 

 taking place between Djimma and Yangaro, many natives of 

 the latter country are made prisoners, some of whom are re- 

 tained in domestic slavery, while others are sold into capti- 

 vity. Hence, the number of Yangaro or Djandjaro slaves 

 that are met with in the markets of Abessinia and the Red 

 Sea. But in Abessinia, the name Djandjaro has, partly 

 through ignorance and partly by way of ridicule, been changed 

 into Zendjero, which word in the Amharic language means 

 " Monkey." If, then, in the enunciation of what is unques- 

 tionably a fact, it were stated that the people of Djimma and 

 Kaffa are waited on by Djeindjaro servants, or, as it would be 

 repeated in Amharic, by Zhidjero servants ; nothing would be 

 more natural among an ignorant and marvel-loving people, 

 than to imagine these " Zt-ndjcro" to be monkey servants. 



Bnlletin, M Scries, vol. xix. v. 439. t Vo'. 'i. p. 151. 



