PYGMIES AND EOEEST XEGROES 



resemblance in character to the elves and truomes 

 nursery stories At the 



and 



prites 

 anie time, we mnst be on our guard 

 reckless theori^ing, and it may lie too much to assume that the 

 species ever inhabited Europe, 

 m spite of the resemblance be- 

 tween the stone implements of 

 paheolithic European man and 

 those of the modern Tasmanians 

 — and the Tasmanians were 

 negroid if not negro. Paheolithic 

 man in Europe may have been 

 more like the Yeddah, the 

 Airstralian, the Dravidian, tlie 

 Ainu, than the Bushman or 

 Congo Pygnu'. rndonlitedly (to 

 my thinking) most " fairy " 

 myths arose from the contem- 

 plation of the mvsterious haliits 

 of dwarf troglodyte races linger- 

 ing on still in the crannies, 

 caverns, forests, and mountains 

 of Elurope after the invasion of 

 neolithic man. J'ut we must not 

 too widely assume that these ex- 

 tinct Pygmy races were Negroes. 

 They might well have been the 

 dwarfed descendants of earlier 

 and less definite human .sjiecies ; 

 they may have been primitive 

 Mongols like the Es(piimaux. 

 All the three species, or sulv 

 species, of Homo have developed 

 separately, rejieatedly, and con- 

 currently, dwarf and giant races. 

 Tall peoples have arisen inde- 

 pendentlv one after the other in 

 l^atagonia, in Equatorial Africa, 

 in North Africa, Syria, Nortliern 

 Euro[ie, and Polynesia. Stunt 1 

 races have been evolved in ' -^ ' 



several iiarts of Africa, in ' ' 

 Scandinavia, Japan, the An- (upper itiki iii>iTRicT) 



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