THE PIGMIES 



OF 



HOMER, HERODOTUS, ARISTOTLE, PLINY, ETC; 



THE ASIATIC PIGMIES, OR NEGRITOS ; 

 THE NEGRILLOS OR AFRICAN PIGMIES. 



BY 



A. de QUATREFAGES, f.r.s., 

 Memhre de Vlnstitut, Professeur au Museum d l Histoire NtCturelle. 



TRANSLATED BY 



J. ERRINGTON de la CROIX. 

 (Continued from Journal No. 11, page 120.) 



THE ASIATIC PIGMIES OR NEGRITOS. (*) 

 III. 



Intellectual Characteristics. ( 2 ) 



Lanyuage. — Reing a perfect stranger to the study of language s, 

 I can but simply record here, without discussing them, the various 



(i) This paper was originally published in the Journal des Savants (Ao4t 

 et Decembre 1882). 



( 2 ) In order to make a complete anthropological description of the 

 Negritos, I ought to have mentioned here their physiological and pathological 

 characteristics. But what we know on this subject amounts to very little vv.d 

 is little more than what travellers have said of most wild tribes. The 

 muscular strength of the Mincopies is much greater than would I e supposed 

 from their short stature and rounded 3 mils. Like the Aetas, they arc re- 

 markable for their extreme agility tncl the acutenees of their senses. Both 



