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he, exceeded l m 50. ( l ) The one measured by M. Vossion, was 

 32 years old and l m 31 in height. Tebo, the older of Miami's 

 Akkas, with all the characteristics of an adult, has stopped grow- 

 ing at l m 4i, which is the average for the three figures above. ( 3 ) 



The woman measured by Marno, was from 20 to 25 years of 

 age and came up to 1™36 ( 3 ) ; the one of Chaill^-Long was 

 l m 216; Saida, l m 3l (*) ; the mean height thus being 1^302. 

 The average for both sexes would be l m 356. These figures bring 

 the Akkas, with regard to stature, perceptibly below the Mincopies, 

 and even slightly under the Bushmen, who, to this day, have been 

 looked upon as the smallest people on earth. But the measure- 

 ments obtained, up to now, among intertropical Pigmies are not 

 numerous enough to allow of this fact being definitively accepted 

 by science. ( 5 ) 



ScHWErNFURTH describes the Akkas as having a very large head, 

 a wide and nearly spheroidal skull. ( 6 ) The latter feature has 

 certainly been exaggerated. The highest index, ever measured on 

 the body, is given by Marno's figures and only reaches 82-85, 

 which amounts to about 80-85 for the dry skull. The average, for 

 three young subjects, is 78-03, that is, over 76-00 for the dry skull. 

 ( 7 ) This result, far from indicating the true dolicocephalism which 

 distinguishes full-blooded Negroes, agrees on the contrary with the 

 figures that distinguish the Negrillo type as shown above. Accord- 

 ing to Schweineurth again, the complexion of the Akkas recalls 

 the colour of slightly burnt coffee. The observations made on 



(i) Log. tit, p. 151. 



(2) GrIGLIOLI, loc. tit., p. 406. 



(3) Loc. tit, p. 461. 

 (*) Log. tit, p. p. 410. 



( 5 ) This reservation is all the more justified that no Akka has ever exhi- 

 bited so low a minimum (lml4) as the female Bushman measured by Bar- 

 row and especially as the individual of the same race to whom Doctor Weis- 

 back assigns a stature of lm only. 



(s) Loc. tit, p. 124. 



( 7 ) In order to bring back the ratio obtained on the living to what it 

 would be on the dry skull, M. Hamy takes into account the small develop- 

 ment of the temporal muscles in young subjects, and reduces the index by 

 one unit only, thus considering the average under remark as being 77.00 at 

 least, ( Ion. til^ p, 98,) 



