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through the grass like grasshoppers, and are so bold and clever that 
they shoot their arrows into the elephants’ eyes and drive their lances 
into their bellies. After this Schweinfurth met with several hundreds 
of these diminutive warriors, none of whom, though full grown, 
exceeded in height the first one seen. He also secured one of the 
pygmy boys, whom the king gave him as a present to take to Europe, 
and the boy having no relations living, there was no one to object. 
Though little “Tikki-tikki” (the Niam-Niam name for the dwarfs) 
soon was quite reconciled to the change, and accompanied his master 
everywhere, delighting in hunting and the fights he witnessed, he so 
overgorged himself with eating that an illness was brought on, from 
which he died in Berber. 
Schweinfurth’s journey ended in a serious misfortune, a fire 
breaking out in a village in which he was staying and spreading with 
such rapidity that his journal and nearly all his effects were destroyed. 
Much was irretrievably lost, but the traveler was too stout-hearted to 
give up. From memoranda saved, and from memory, he constructed 
the greater part of his journal again, though of course the specimens 
collected, with which he had hoped to enrich the museums of Europe, 
were gone. At one time he even resolved to make another journey 
into the Niam-Niam country, but the hostilities going on there pre¬ 
vented his realizing this project. Returning to Khartoum, and thence 
to Suakin on the Red Sea, he embarked for Europe, and arrived on 
November 2, 1871, after three years and four months’ absence, having 
during that time visited kingdoms till then unknown, and accomplished 
more than any other traveler in the way of adding to our knowledge 
of the natural history of the great central regions of the African 
continent. 
