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twelve years old. The notes which their professor showed to M. 

 Giglioli, prove that they went thoroughly well through the various 

 compositions in arithmetic, parsing and dictation. ( J ) Countess 

 Miniscalcht gave music lessons to Tebo, and M. G-iglioli heard 

 him play, on the piano, some rather difficult pieces, with a certain 

 amount of feeling and a good deal of precision. ( 2 ) 



In short, we may conclude that, in spite of their small stature, 

 their comparatively long arms, their large bellies and short legs, 

 the Akkas are real and true men in every respect ; those who had 

 looked upon them as half-monkeys must be now completely un- 

 deceived. 



Conclusion. — The foreing facts seem to convey a few general 

 considerations which I will now briefly summarize. 



In proceeding from Senegambia and Gaboon towards the land 

 of the Gallas and Monboutous, we have verified the true existence 

 of human communities characterized, all of them, by a small 

 stature, a comparatively large and rounded head, a lighter 

 complexion than that of Negroes proper, and by similar instincts and 

 customs. "With M. Hamy, we must acknowledge that these 

 groups are as many specimens of a special race, the Negrillos, who 

 are, in Africa, the representatives of the Asiatic and Indo-Melane- 

 sian Negritos. 



The ancients evidently possessed more or less accurate infor- 

 mation respecting these Negrillos, as well as the Negritos. They 

 were the African Pigmies, but they had been placed in three 

 geographical localities where they are no more to be met with now- 

 a-days. In order to find them, we must look to countries which are 



( i ) Chairallah had obtained 10 ( maximum figure ) for dictation and 

 caligraphy ; Tebo, also 10 for dictation. Their other notes are 8/10 and 9/10 

 except for the solution of arithmetic problems, in which Chairallah comes 

 down to 7/10 and Tebo to 6/10. We find here again a proof of the inferiority 

 of Negro races with regard to science. 



(a) Id. p. 209. Their education has unfortunately been stopped at present- 

 Both Chairallae and Tebo make part of the household in the Mlniscal? 

 qhi family. ( Giglioli. loe. cit.) 



