THE PIGMIES. 37 



good luck, during one of his travels, of coming across two Akka 

 female slaves, a young girl and an adult woman. ( x ) Another 

 woman, Sajda, sent to Italy by G-essi-Pacha, was thoroughly 

 examined by M. Gigliolt. ( 2 ) M. Chatll^-Long-Bey saw also 

 a woman who had accompanied one of Mounza's sisters 

 to the country of the Niams-Niains. ( 3 ) M. Vossion", French 

 Vice-Consul at Khartoum, has given, in a letter that was put at my 

 disposal, a brief description of a grown-up man. But, though 

 these records may corroborate and complete each other, still they 

 would be quite insufficient, had not a favourable circumstance 

 occurred, which furnished European anthropologists with the means 

 of studying personally the curious race under remark. 



A traveller, more courageous than learned, M\ Miani, had fol- 

 lowed on the footsteps of Schweinfurth and also reached the 

 country of Mombouttous. Less fortunate than his predecessor, 

 he broke down from fatigue, and died, bequeathing to the Italian 

 Geographical Society, two young Akkas whom he had exchanged 

 for a dog and a calf. (*) After various vicissitudes, Tebo and 

 Chair all ah, were taken charge of by a man of science and feeling 

 Count Morse alchi-Erxzzo, who had them brought up under his 

 direction. They could thus be followed and studied at leisure. 

 Their photographs were at the same time profusely distributed 

 by the Geographical Society, and attracted, on all sides, the atten- 

 tion of anthropologists. ( 5 ) The result of these observations was 



(i ) M. Maeno's notes were published in the Mittheilungen cler Antliropo- 

 logiscJten Gesellschaft in iVien, vol. V, and were analysed in the ArcJtivio per 

 VAntropologia e la Et nolo gi a, vol. IV, p. 451, and also in M. Ham y"s work, loc. 

 eit, p. 98. 



( 2 ) Gil Akka vcvanti in Italia. (Archivio, vol. X, p. 404.) 



( 3 ( Voyage an Lac Victoria Kyanr.a et an Pays cles Niams-Niams ; Bulletin 

 de la Societe de Geographic, 6th Series, vol. X, p. 363 ) and Central Africa, p. 

 263, with plates, p. 264 and 267. In the latter an Akka woman is represented 

 between two Niam-Marns and hardly comes up to their shoulder. 



O) Les Altkas, by Count Miniscalchi-Erizzo. ) Congres International 

 des Sciences Geograpkiques, Session of Paris, 1879. vol. I, p. 299.) The author 

 gives three photographs representing Tebo, full face and profile, and Chair - 

 Allah full face only. 



(s) Tebo and Chairallah, on arriving at Cairo, were examined by 

 Colucci-Pacha, Regny-Bey, Doctor Gaillardot and by M.M. Schwein- 

 purth, Owen, Cornalia and Panceri, who happened, by chance, to be at 



