30 THE PIGMIES. 



tions of the same region and adjacent territories, who are connected 

 with the negro type proper. Availing himself again of materials 

 of all kinds, M. Hamt has proved that crossing of dolichocephalic 

 with brachiocephalic Negroes conlcl alone account for the general 

 mixture of characteristics, especially for the morphological differ- 

 ences in the skull, remarked, instance after instance, among various 

 tribes of the valley of the Ogoouo of Fernand-Vaz. ( x ) I need 

 not follow him here in all the details which have brought him to 

 this general conclusion, but will state one single fact only. When 

 M. M. de Brazz v and Ballay returned from the perilous jour- 

 ney, which was rewarded by the discovery of the Alima and the 

 Licona, they found, on an island of the Upper Ogoonc, four skulls 

 and one complete skeleton which are now in the anthropological 

 gallery of the Museum. Two out of these five skulls, have an 

 average horizontal index of 82.24, thus approaching very closely 

 to true brachycephalisiiE ( 2 ) The three others are dolichocephalic. 

 The former are the skulls of Negrillos the latter of Negroes. 



Let us add that the observations, gathered by M. March e 

 among the N'Javis, the Apindjis, the Okotas and the Okoas, show 

 that among these races, who have the skull relatively full, there is 

 a sensible falling off in stature. ( 3 ) With the N'Javis, it hardly 



( T ) I should mention, among- others, the study made by M. Hamy of the 

 eraniometrical results which Professor Owen obtained by examining a 

 collection brought from these regions by M. de Chaillu. . The English 

 savant had published the rough figures. Our countryman calculated the 

 indices and showed that, out of the 93 skulls, which formed the collection, 

 49 only were dolichocephalic or sub-dolichocephalic, 11 sub-brachycephalic, 

 and 2 brachycephalic. The intervention of an ethnical element belonging 

 to this last type is shewn clearly by this discussion which M. Hamy has 

 made the starting point of his studies on the same subject. (Note sur 

 lexlstence des Negres hraektjcephales sur la cote oecidentale d'A^'rique, in the 

 Bulletin de la Societe d'AivtJiropologie, 2meserie, vol. VII, p. 210.) 



( 2 ) Hamy, Note sur Veseistence des Nhgres bracJiycephales $'c, p. 9fi.) 



(••5) M. Hamy thinks that these tribes are allied to the Obongos seen by 



we CHAILLTJ, near Niembouai in the Ashango land, (l°f>S';34" south latitude 



and Ll°56'38" east longitude). These Obongos belong in fact to the small 



sized populations wo are examining now. The young adult male measured 



-. was Lm36C only, and one of the women, Lm340. But the 



■ w colour of their skin and especially their short hair, growing in 



small bufts, bad led to connectiug these dwarfs with, the Bushmen 



Howev< r, DU CHAILLU has not mentioned the characteristic apron and steato- 



