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ORIGIN OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO. 
bows and arrows or snares. Their huts are about four feet high 
and of about the same diameter, built of branches stuck into the 
ground and bent over into a semicircle. The hut is thatched with 
large leaves and a small hole is left at the side through which the 
pygamy crawls in to lie on his bed of leaves, which is the only piece 
of furniture. 
Stanley found some of these dwarfs in his journey through 
the Congo forests, and agrees with Sir Harry Johnston in the 
description. It seems that the little fellows have no language of 
their own, but talk more or less imperfectly the language of what- 
THE MARIMBA, OR AFRICAN PIANO. 
ever tribe of negroes happens to be their nearest neighbors. The 
white travelers who have visited them say that, although they are 
absolutely savage in their natural life, yet they possess quicker 
intelligence than the ordinary negroes and learn languages easier. 
The foreign travelers declare that they are most interesting 
people, fond of singing and dancing, with music of their own that 
is distinctly melodious, and a drollery of action which makes them 
generally entertaining. It remains now for Africa to yield a race 
of giants to complete the record of marvels which the continent has 
produced. 
The Dutch were not in the first instance the discoverers of the 
Cape of Good Hope. The old Portuguese navigators were the 
