Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-11-10

Dark tyranny stricken to death
But the mother turns pale with her sad selfish pains,
And the wife draws a Hutterng breath
What is glory them, stretchd doubts herrd rack
! Asking mutey around" viii he come back ?"
| Who can tell?
Translated roVn the French for the Washington Globe
Men with Tails.
An engraving which cannot fail to be successful,
has appeared in the last number of the Medical and
Pharmaceutc of France 1t is the full length portrait
| of a man with tail, drawn at Mecca, in 1872 by
the only European who speak otherwise than by
hearsay of that singular variety of our species, The
artist is the traveller known in Africa, the theatre of
his discoveries, by the of Hadj bdeI Hamid
Bey and in France, his native country by that of
! NJ du Couret
! It is long time since men provided with this ap.
pendage have been talked about and of which only
certain monkeys of dis,inction-the chimpanzee the
gorilla. and the ourang- -ouang-are destitute. They
were talked about in the days OF Ptolemy, and if
modern travellers are TO be believed, it is very
common phenomenon Some of their relations ap-
pear, however to be worthy of credit
! One traveller relates that he at Crlpoi
gro named Mahommed native of Barnou who
had tail half foot long. Nlahommed declared
that all his tribe tailed well himself. and
| the slave merchants confirmed what he said
| The Hoander, John Struys with his own
eyes, iii the Island of Formosa. man sporting
caudal appendage more than foot long, and COY.
cred with red hair, very much like ox-tal." and,
according him, all the inha banls OF the southern
| part of Formosa were in the same predcament.
| If we are to believe Gemea, Manila nhabi-
ted by negroes with tails four five feet long. And
Hornemann afirms that, between the Gulf OF Benin
and Abyssina, there anthropophagi with tails,
called Nam Mans
Nevertheless, down to the present time, these rela-
tions cassed with those that asserted the e1s-
tence OF the monocull cycloos, india the
Blemmyes acephall. i'll Lydia; the ceptaurs, in
Scythia; the tritons. syrens, nereds &c, all of
which were believed in the former times and which
Saint Isidore. for example, believed 10 be very proba-
ble although he dsbeleved the existence of the an
tipodes and. indeed that was generally believed
| Since the discovery OF NJ Couret, the thing is now
lncontestibe, and every have the satisfac-
tion Of looking at the authentic likeness of man
with tail, which supplement three inches in
length and almost flexible the tail OF a monkey
NJ Couret adds that his model has the gift of
speech. and that besides his material language he
speaks the Arabic f1ueniIy. He was a slave, and
worked for his master. who obliged to give him
ration of raw muttoa every morning, and he was
anlhropophagons by nature. this was wise precau-
| tion.
All the members of his tribe which is. that of the
Ghanes--the same, probably, the Nam. Mans
which is much more of negro name-are. accord,
ing to the Mecca slave. provided with the caudal
prolongatiOn. Since his first communication upon
this subject, NJ. Couret has made voyage Africa,
and he has been specially charged by the French
| Gov overnment to obtain Nam Nam Unfortunate.
ly, he not able to reach that tribe, but It's exs-
tence is confirmed by many proofs that it becomes
difficult to doubt it,
The Sultan OF Tugurt. whose acquaintance NJ
Couret formed in Africa, declares that he once had
in his capital negress of the of the Mann
Mans, of the usual conformation, c, aquipped
with tail
Prince Mohaned, OF the last Sultan of FcZ.
zan, confirmed. when he was i'll Paris. the existence
of the Nam Mans. at the south Of Bournou and
stated that his brother, who reigns there had made
war upon them. NJ Nj. Arnaut and Vaysiere, ira.
vellers in Abyssnia. Rochet de Hercourt dAbbadie,
and Francis de Castenau, have all heard Of the Nam
Mans. The last has collected, with respect to them
the declarations of dozen negroes of SOudan and
he attaches great value to the declaration OF certain
| Mahammah, or Manuel, negro slave at Bahia re
markable for his intelligence, who had made very
long journeys. and whose veracity ,ttested on
various occasions. This Manuel stated that he had
made part Of an expedition of Haoussa conducted by
the Sultan of Kano, against the Man Mans, the
object Of which expressly to verify their cxis.
tencs. We will let NJ. Casilenau speak
The Haoussa expedition slept nine nights in
these forests of Lanchandon; frequently it was ne
cessary to open road for the horses, and many ami.
mails were seen, but not single man. Upon getting
out of the forest. they began to aecend high noun.
tans. and few days afterwards they discovered
band Of wild MAN Mans, They all had tails, about
forty oentimeters (abou. fifteen lnches) in length,
and two three thick and they were without hair.
Among the deaf were several women, who had tails
also In every other respect these people assembled
| other negroes, They were entirely naksd
''Some days afterwards, they tell IN with other
! hands, who met with the same fate One of the
| hands was engaged in eating human flesh, and the
| heads OF three still roasting at the fire on
poles driven into the earth Manuel belonged to the
vanguard and saw many of these people Killed he
| examined the bodies, measured the tails. and ran
| have no doubt of their existence
| The Haoussas were six month in the country ex.
ploring and ravaging it, 1t is scovered with very
high rocks. The greater part OF the Haoussas live
in the holes in the rocks but of them build mi.
serable huts OF straw The Haoussas were frequent.
Iy attacked by these savages. and they killed great
number OF them These people are dull black,
their teeth fled, and their bodies not tattooed-
They obtain ere by of stone foun in the
| country Their arms are clubs, arrows and jave.
Inns; when they attack they utter sbrill yells They
cultivate rice, maize, and other grains, and fruits un.
known to the Haoussas. They are we'll formed, and
their hair woolly. 81.
The chief of the Man Mans begged for mercy,
but the king of Bano orderei all the prisoners to be
killed, because they hod tGils and he did believe
that any one would buy such slaves.
The Niam-kiams have breed of small cattle
without horns, and goats Of great size, well as
sheep. sssi