40 THE PIGMIES. 



Tebo and Chairallah are in accordance with this statement. But 

 Count Minis oalc hi has observed that their skin became much paler 

 in winter time. ( x ) Their hair is about the same colour, though 

 lighter in the case of Chairallah. With both it is decidedly woolly 

 and forms gzomevules ; such is also the beard which has grown on 

 Tebo's chin and upper -lip. ( 2 ) 



ScnwEiNFURTH has represented Nsevoite as very prognathic, 

 the nose being aquiline de profil, though the tip is blended with 

 the upper lip ( 3 ) ; the chin is prominent, whereas, with Bombi, 

 it recedes a good deal and the nose stands out more. ( 4 ) In that 

 respect, Tebo's photograph approaches more closely the latter type 

 than the former. ( 5 ) The lips are not so thick as with common 

 jNTegroes, and are even described as thin by M. Vossion" and by 

 Schweikfurth as well. 



All statements agree in asigning to the Akkas, men or 

 women, a considerable expansion of the belly which gives to 

 adults the appearence of Negro or Arab children. ( 6 ) In the 

 photographs we possess of Tebo and Chairallah, this feature is 

 most conspicuous. M. Panizza, who studied, in an anatomical 

 point of view and by auscultation, the cause of such a develop- 

 ment, attributes it to an unusual size of the spleen and of the 

 left lobe of the liver, and also to a large amount of fat accummu- 

 lated in the mesentery. ( 7 ) This distension of the abdomen is 

 attended by consequences which have struck all observers. The 

 chest, comparatively narrow and flat in the upper region, expands 

 lower down so as to encompass this enormous paunch. ( s ) On the 

 other hand, the protrusion of the belly requires, for the sake of 

 balance in the body, that the lower portion of the spine should 



(i) Loc. cit., p. 301. 



(2) Giglioli, loc. cit., p. 405. 



(3) Loc. cit, p. 64. 



(*) SCHWEIXFURTH, loc. cit., p. 121. 



(o) Mixiscalchi, loc. cit., p. '300. 



(«) Schweixfukth, loo. cit., p. 123; Marxo, loc. cit., p. 461 ; Vossiox's 

 unpublished letter. However, Bombi's portrait does not exhibit this character, 



(?) Loc. cit., p. 465. 



(s) Schweixfukth, loc. cit. 



