MAKOKO DWARFS. 387 



M. cVLisle seems to have been perfectly satisfied 

 as to the human nature of the Government, and of 

 course the people of Zingero, but still he was 

 trammeled with a nation of so-called dwarfs, 

 which in his days were represented to occupy a 

 tract of country more remote than the Abyssinian 

 kingdom of Zingero, so we find that in his map 

 encircling that country to the west and south, a 

 nation of dwarfs is placed, the name of whom, he 

 was informed, was Makoko. Exactly as in the case 

 of the Zingero of Ludolph, Makoko is nothing more 

 but the Amharic term for monkey, and of course 

 the same explanation proves the connexion of 

 these Makoko dwarfs with those animals, and also 

 of their identity with the same reported race of 

 w r hich Ludolph had previously recorded his know- 

 ledge, although, as I have before said, their 

 existence as a nation was not so insisted upon by 

 him as it appears to have been by d'Lisle. 



I will now direct attention to the principal 

 characteristics of the modern Doko, but I may 

 observe, that no Abyssinian I ever questioned 

 upon the subject, either learned duptera, or 

 Kuffah slave, could give me any information, 

 excepting an old servant of Dr. Krapf, Roophael, 

 who seemed fully acquainted with them, and 

 I have seen him amusing a whole circle of Shoans 

 with his relation of these people. But be it ob- 

 served that Ludolph's " History of Ethiopia " 

 formed a part of his master's library, and he 

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