2fj THE PIGMIES. 



"seem to prevent them from making any progress." ( x ) At 

 the same time he acknowledges among them the gentle and 

 soft manners to which we have already alluded. In this, lie 

 agrees entire!;- with Logan. The latter, however, considers the 

 Bermun tribes as inconsistent and irritable. They must, says 

 b.e, be treated as children. ( 2 ) St. John uses the very same 

 expression with regard to the Mincopies. It shows once more 

 that these two groups resemble each other, in their moral as well 

 their physical characteristics. To deny their fundamental ethnical 

 identity is evidently impossible for any one who has at all studied 

 the question. 



Conclusion. — However, incomplete this study may be, the con- 

 clusion to be drawn from it seems to me to be obvious and easy to 

 formulate. From nearly unanimous testimony, these races have 

 been considered as occupying one of the last stages in humankind. 

 When" attention was originally directed to the Mincopies, some 

 learned men of unquestionable merit, were led to believe that the 

 missing link between the man and the monkey had been found at 

 last. We have now seen that this is not so and that, even where 

 furtherest removed from change and from mixture with other 

 races, the only things which ennoble a community, the Negritos 

 prove to be true and real men in every respect. 



PABT IV. 

 r J]iE iSEGEILLOS OE AFKICAN PIGMIES. 



I he African dwarfs of whom the Ancients had a glimpse and the 

 very genuine < xisti nee of whom has given rise to so many legends, 

 weie ei.lv <liseo\< red again by n odern generations at a late period. 



( ' ) MOKTANO, he. Clt. p. u . 

 (•-') Loc. clt. p. 269. 



