PIGMIES. 



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Westward of the great mountain are placed 

 in the ' Mombas Mission Map ' the Wabilikimo 

 (Wambelikimo), 'literally the two measuring, 

 i. e. twice the measure from the middle finger- 

 tip to the elbow. This is of course an ex- 

 aggeration, but they are no doubt a diminutiye 

 race of men. They come to Jagga to trade, 

 where they are called TTakoningo.' The name, 

 howeyer, ' Kimo,' or Yazimba, the first occu- 

 pants of Ankoya (Madagascar), is mentioned 

 eyen by Eochon : he makes them a people of 

 pigmies, in stature ayeraging three feet six inches, 

 of a lighter colour than the negro, long-armed, 

 and with short woolly hair. South of Kafa, 

 again, the Doko^ race is said to be only four feet 

 in stature. Formerly we explained these tra- 

 ditional Blemmyes, or pigmies, by supposing 

 them to be apes that haye been submitted to 

 sayage exaggeration. But the state of the 

 question has been completely changed since the 

 Second Expedition of my friend Paul du Chail- 

 lu, who, despite the late Mr John Craufurd, 



probably the ' carnelian currency ' (p. 29) of Mr Cooley's 

 ' Kirimanjara.' Of course such a circulation could never have 

 sufficed for one-thousandth part of the interior trade, nor 

 could the frozen heights of Kilima-njaro ever have 'been the 

 highest ridge crossed by the road to Monomoezi.' 

 ^ Mdogo in Kisawahili means a short man. 



