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Aetas and Mamanouas, dwarf races of the Phillipine Islands/^ aud 

 Europeans before long discovered the dwarfs in the Andaman 

 Islands, who are known as the Mincopies. In Africa, new dwarf 

 tribes were constantly being found, such as the Sokos by Dr. 

 Krapf, and the Obangos by M. DuChaillu. Sweinfurth, in 1879, 

 discovered the strange pigmies the Akkas, in the heart of Central 

 Afi-ica.'^ Since then, many v\'riters such as Sir H. M. Stanley and 

 Sir Harry Johnston, have described the pigmies and dwarfs of the 

 Congo Forest and of the Uganda Protectorate. It is now held by 

 many anthropologists, that a number of dwarf races formed the 

 earliest human inhabitants of Central Africa. Mr. P. Gr. Plali- 

 burton"^ has traced these pigmy races into Morocco and Spain, 

 Long ago, Jacob Grimm concluded from the traditions of elves, 

 gnomes, and trolls, current in Germany, that dwarf races in- 

 habited Central Europe in prehistoric times, and Professor 

 Nillson has come to the same conclusion concerning Scandinavia. '''' 

 Ten years ago Dr. Niiesch found the bones of pigmies in a 

 Neolithic deposit near Schaffhausen,^'' who were smaller than the 

 dwarfs of the Andamans. Professors Sergi, Thilenius and 

 KoUmanu, are at present examining the remains of racial dwarfs 

 of the Neolithic Period, in Germany, and the last named an- 

 thropologist declares that he has found the bones of pigmies in a 

 cave called La Grotte des Fees, in the department of Seine-et- 

 Marne, in France. So it is also as far as Switzerland is 

 concerned, and Professor Wyss supposes that the traditionary 

 dwarfs of the Alps were pigmies, who were forced to take refuge 

 in the mountains by their taller neighbours. 



In England we have similar legends of fairies, goblins, and 

 " little i^eoxile," which are now explained in the same way, by 

 many of our leading anthrojoologists. Professor E. B. Tylor" 

 holds that these stories had their origin in a primitive race of 

 pigmies. Mr. David Mac Eitchie has written much on the sub- 



72. These dwarfs have been well described by M Montano, in Voyage aux 

 Phillipines pp. 64—73, and by M. de Quatrefages in Lcs Pygmecs. chaps, ii, iii. and in 

 Homines Possiles et Homines Sauyages, pp. 170 — 194. 



73. The Heart of Africa, vol. ii, pp. 122, 146. 



74. Dwarf Survivals and Traditions as to Pygmy Races, pp. 1—5, 



75. The Primitive Inhabitants of Scandinavia, pp. 207,210. 



76. Scottish Geograpttical Magazine, S^^i., 1897, p. 472 

 77 Primitive Culture, vol. i, pp. 283, 385. 



