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groups of interesting savages, without imposture and 

 without ill-treatment, and enables us to see and talk with 

 them almost as though we had travelled to their remote 

 native forests. It would certainly be a successful and 

 worthy enterprise on the part of the Anthropological 

 Society of London to start a garden and houses such as 

 those maintained by the Zoological Society, but arranged 

 so as to receive some five or six groups of interesting 

 " savages." The society would be responsible for careful 

 and humane treatment of their guests, and return them 

 after a sojourn, say, of a couple of years, to their native 

 country and replace them by specimens of other races. 

 Under the auspices of showmen I have seen Zulu Kaffirs, 

 Guiana Indians, North American Indians, Kalmuck 

 Tartars, South African bushmen, and Congo pygmies in 

 London, besides many hundreds of African negroes of 

 various tribes. Farini's bushmen and Harison's Congo 

 pygmies were perfect samples of the dwarf race about 

 which I am writing. But I also saw and examined care- 

 fully, in 1872, at Naples, with my friend Professor Panceri, 

 the two African pygmies, Tebo and Chairallah, who were 

 the first to reach Europe. They were subsequently 

 adopted by and lived for some years under the care of 

 Count Miniscalchi Erizzo. They were very intelligent, 

 and learnt to read and to write well, and to play difficult 

 music on the piano, with feeling and appreciation. We 

 were especially concerned to determine by the stage of 

 growth of their teeth and other indications whether they 

 were merely ordinary young negroes, as some anthro- 

 pologists supposed, or really representatives of the dwarf 

 race as asserted by the traveller Miani, who bought them 

 in exchange for a dog and a calf, in the country of the 

 Mombootoos, south of the Welle River, and west of the 

 Albert Nyanza. They were still young and growing 

 when we examined them, but Tebo ceased growth when 



