Hannibal journal. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1852-1853, 1853-09-08
NEw YoRK,
"Wednesday, August 24th, 1853,

MY Dean Norma: you will doubtless be
u little surprised, and somewhat angry Wien you
receive this, and find me so far from home; bat
YOU must bear little with me, for you know
was always the best boy You had and perhaps
YOU remember the people used TO say to their
children-"Now don't DO like q, and II. CT
but take S. for your guide!'
Well, was out of work in St. Louis, and
didn't fancy loafng in such dry place, where
there is no pleasure TO be seen without paying
well for II, and 50 thought Knight as well goI
To New York. | packed up my fdnds" and left
for this village, where Larriyed, all right, this
morning.
1t took day, by steamboat and cars, TO 60
from St. Louis TO Bloomington, Ill; another day
by railroad, from there to Chicago, where laid
over all day Sunday; from Chicago 10 Monroe,
in Michigan, by railroad, another day; from
Monroe, across Lake Erie, in the fine Lake
,alace. "Sou,hern Michigan" 10 Buffalo, an
other day; from Buffalo TO Albany, by railroad,
another day; and from Albany to New York,
nv Hudson river steamboat, another day Ian
awful trip, taking five days, where it should
have been only three. shall wait day or SO
for nv ibsides TO get settled, after the iolting
they received, when shall look out for sit;
for they say there is plenty Of work TO be had
for sober composiiors.
The trip, however, was very pleasant one
Rochester, famous OIL hCcUunl OF the ''SDirll
Rappings" was OF course interesting; andi when
saw the Court House in Syracuse, it called
to mind the time when it was surrounded with
chains and companies of soldiers, TO prevent the
rescue of McReynolds bigger, by the Internal
abolitionists. ] reckon had better black my
face for in these Eastern States niggeTs are
considerably better than white people.
saw a curiosity to-day, but don't know
whatto call il. Two beings, about like common
people, with the exception Of their faces, which
are more like the "phiz" OF an orang-outang,
than human. They are white, though, like other
people. Imagine person about the size of
F.---J--'s Oldest by, with small lips
and full breast, with constant uneasy, fdgety
motion, bright, intelligent eyes, tht seems as ii
they would look through you, and you have
these things. They were found in the island OF
BOrneo the only ones of The species ever dis
coyered,O about twenty years ago. One Of them
is twenty three, and the other twenty five years
Of age. They possess amazing strength; the
smallest one would shoulder three hundred
pounds as easily as wouda plug of tobacco;
they are supposed TO be a cross between man and
orang outang; one is the best natured being in
the world, while the other would tear a stran-
ger TO pieces, If he did but touch him; they wear
their hair "SamsoR" fashion, down to their
waists. They have no apple in their throats,
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sound; no memory either; what transpres to-day
they have forgotten before tomorrow; they look
like one mass Of muscle, and can walk either OF
all tours or upright; when let alone, they will
walk to and fro across the room, thirteen hours
out Of the twenty.four: not a day passes but
they walk twenty-five or thirty miles, without
resting thirty minutes; watched them about an
hour and they were ''tramping" the whole time.
The little one bent his arm with the elbow in
front, and The hand pointing upward, and no
twoStrapping six footers in the room could
pull it out straight. Their faces and eyes are
those Of the beast and when they fix their gilt
tering orbs on you with steady, unhinehing
gaze, you inslinctiyely draw back a step, and a
very unpleasant sensation steals thr6ugh your
veins. They are both males and brothers, and
very small. though do not know Il, ,ir enact
hight. | have given you very Lengthy de-
scrip.ion of the animslss bat have nothing else
10 write about, and nothing from here would be