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flure of the litle kerke, and i myfelve amanges 

 the leaue, and has found in it, deepe under the 

 erthe, certain banes and round heads of wonderful 

 little quantity, allegit to be the banes of the faid 

 Pigmies, quhilk may be lykely, according to 

 fundry hiftorys that we reid of the Pigmies ; but 

 i leave this far of it to the ancients of Lewis." 1 



In the Academy (March 19, 1881) may be 

 found an account of three modern Pygmies from 

 Africa, the only reprefentatives of their race now 

 living in Europe. The two boys are at prefent 

 being brought up under the protection of Count 

 Minifcalchi at Verona, while the girl is lefs for- 

 tunately placed at Triefte. The elder boy, 

 Thibaut, now meafures 1-42 metre (55*9 inches) 

 in height, and is believed to have reached his 

 greateft ftature. He is probably about nineteen 

 years of age. Chairallah, on the other hand, is ftill 

 growing, and at prefent meafures 1-41 metre 

 (55-5 inches) ; he is fuppofed to be about fifteen 

 years of age. Thefe lads have very pronounced 

 dolicocephalic fkulls, with the characleriftic three- 

 lobed form of nofe. Their prognathifm is very 

 ftriking ; the mouth large ; the lips thick ; the 

 teeth ftout, well-feparated, and exceedingly white. 

 Tufts of black woolly hair have appeared upon 

 the cheeks, the chin, and the upper lip of Thibaut. 

 Chairallah, on the contrary, mows no trace of hair 

 upon the face ; his vifage, however, has greatly 

 lengthened with age. They have forgotten both 



1 "Defcription of the Weftern Ifles of Scotland." By 

 Donald Monro (ed. 1784), p. 37. Martin fays of this that 

 the natives call thefe the bones of Luilbirdan (i.e. pygmies). 



