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" and egg-shaped. The Esquimaux huts assume that very shape, 

 " but are of snow." 



Lastly, tradition says that the cranes meet their enemies during 

 their annual journey from north to south. To this, Boulin replies : 

 " Taking for granted that the migration of cranes takes place 

 " between the same limits, but placing these in the swamps of TJp- 

 " per Egypt on one side, and in Scy thia, that is, close to the glacial 

 '•' zone, on the other, we see that it is in the latter region that the 

 " Pigmies ought really to be found." 



It is now useless to discuss Rotjlin's corrections, however inge- 

 nious they may be. I shall confine myself to remarking that he has 

 neglected another passage of Pliny, a passage all the more im- 

 portant inasmuch as it allows us to ascertain with precision the 

 exact point where the great naturalist placed his Asiatic dwarfs. 

 In his description of India, we read the following : " Immediate- 

 " ly beyond the country inhabited by the Prusians, and in the 

 " mountains where the Pigmies are reported to live, is the In- 

 " dus." ( 1 ) The mountains in question were thus to the west of 

 the river, and as the Pigmies resorted every year to the seaside, 

 they could not possibly have lived very far inland ; they must con- 

 sequently have inhabited the most southerly portion of the hilly 

 region of Beloochistan. This region is situated towards the 25th 

 and 26th degrees north latitude and 63° and 64° east longitude. 

 Travellers have never pointed out any people of exceptionally small 

 stature in these parts, but by advancing a little further, about two 

 degrees more south and 25 or 26 degrees to the east, one finds, 

 amongst the Yindhya hills, the Bandra-Lolclis, who were re-discov- 

 ered by Rotjsselet. ( 2 ) 



The name of this tribe literally means men-monkeys ; they are 

 negroes of very small stature isolated amidst totally different races 



(i) Pliny— Log. cit., p. 250b. 



( 2 ) Note sur vn 116 Autochthone des For tits deVInde Centrals — byM. Louis 

 Rousselet, an Appendix to my paper called Etude sur les Mineopies et la 

 Race Negrito en general (Revue d" Anthropologic, vol. I, p. 245 ) ; and Note 

 aur un Negrito de VInde Centrals ( Bulletin de la Societe d 1 Anthropologies 

 2nd series, vol. VII, p. 619J. An English traveller had already spoken of 

 these Bandra-Lokhs or Bandar-Lokhs ; but what he had said about them still 

 allowed strong- doubts on the subject to be entertained, 



