The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-07-15
A NEW RACE OF PEOPLE.

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companied to the interior, under the
lead of DIR. Won Guldenhorn. On the
22nd day after entrance into hitherto
unexplored forest, they emerged upon
vast plain, on which were some large
trees, looking across which one could see
the silvery glimmer of a lake, beyond
which mountains rose to an enormous
height. For some reason the gOrillas
which had been following the expedition
refused to follow them into the clear,
but stood ON the borders of the forest,
shaking their fists angrily, while their
faces wore an expression of fendish and
vindicitive delight, which puzzled the
Germans, and certainly, if all that Dr.
Won Guldenhorn says is true, should
afford DR.. Darwin new chapter In re-
gard to the expression OF emotions IN
animals Their actions were, indeed,
so aggravating that the men could with
difficulty be withheld from giving the
brutes taste of gunpowder, for Ger
mans have & special dislike OF being
made the subject of ridicule the cause of
which they cannot understand. After
the fatigues of their long journey it may
readily be believed that the explorers
were gratifed to find greensward on
which to lie, and plenty of water to
drink, for the plain was irrigated by
number of streams, ON the banks of one
of which they sat down and proceeded
to eat a hearty dinner. Carefully OBJ
serving the ground, they saw at a dis
lance of about five hundred feet plot
of land which seemed to indicate that
the territory was occupied by people
skilled in agriculture. It was or APP
peared to be planted with a vegetable
resembling gigantic red cabbages, ar
ranged in regular rows. DIR. Won Guild
enhorn approached them in order to
make closer inspection, when, to his
greet surprise, they moved rapidly
away, each on its own pedlcle at the
same time loud shout which struck
the exploring party at once with amaze
ment and CONSERVATION. In less than
q minute thereafter the air was full Of
stones, hurled with considerable velocity
from the place to which the anomalous
beings had retired, toward the Germans,
and two of the party were struck, al
though the aim taken did not seem to
have been very accurate, several OF the
missiles falling wide of the mark. Rous-
ed by this attack, DR.. Won Guldenhorn
ordered his men to fire, and two of the
beings curled up in death, their pedicles
kicking and convulsiveIy quivering like
the legs of hen whose head has just
the explosion and the fall of the two
being at seemed once to strike terror to
the hearts of their comrades, who ran
off again, filling the air with their
clamorous shouts.
The Germans then advanced to the
place where those lay who had been hit
with the bullets and examined them.
They were found to be animals so close
ly resembling men as to necessitate their
classification in the genus homo. TAX
ing hold of the extremity, what had at
first been supposed to be pedicle, of
the corpse of one,-the other being
merely wounded, DR.. Won Guldenhorn
found it in every particular to resemble
the hand of man. In lifting 1t from
the ground the arm of this strange thing
was found attached to the trunk by
ball and socket joint; the abdominal in
teguments, which were very small, were
situated as in man; there was very
short neck, and the enormous head, had
first caused the beings to be mistaken
for cabbages. This head was furnished
with the eyes, nose, mouth, and ears of
man; the eyes being small, but well set
in the forehead, the nose somewhat thin
and quite broad, the mouth capacious
and the teeth large and strong, and the
ears like those of a negro. The top of
the head was bald, the hair having been
worn off in way the cause of which the
party afterward discovered to their cost.
The bone of the top of the skull was APP
parently very thick, rather elastic than
otherwise, and evidently capable of
great resistance. While the one who
had been killed was undergoing such
slight examination as could then be
given, the other, which was merely suf
fIA
ball having cut the biceps and shattered
the bone, lay on the ground cursing and
grooming, tearing his hair and watching
his captors with glaring and revengeful
eyes. The language he used was almost
identical with that of the Bosjesmans,
with which several of the party were toll
erably well acquainted, and in it, as u.s.
ed by the fallen hero In his extremity,
could be detected such expressions as
'sfool, double-headed Dutchman, don
nerwetter," and others evincing rage
and possibly also despair. AS there
seemed no probability of an immediate
attack, Dr. Won Guldenhorn set the in
jured bone of his prisoner and endeavor-
ed to engage him in conversation, but
he continued sullen and would have
little or nothing to say.
rs night had now come on pickets
lay down and were soon asleep. About
midnight they were aroused by a shout
Immediately followed by an attack of
the legless one-armed men of Obiljipo-
ona, who discharged themselves at their
enemies by means Of a device curious IN
the extreme. They had slowly worked
their way into the trees by inserting the
strong nails of their hands, one after an
other, into the bark, until limb fit for
their purpose was gained. They then
flung themselves from this branch back
ward and forward until their bodies OBJ
tanned considerable momentum, when
they discharged themselves singly or IN
volleys directly at their foes, striking
with their heads and rebounding to
quite distance. Their operations could
be seen by the light OF the moon, which
was shining brightly, and their actions
were so grotesque that the Germans,
though hard pressed and in danger,
could not refrain from laughter, which
only added to the Indignation and rage
of their opponents, who came at them
now is broadsides and now singly, APP
parently with the notion of sharp shoot
ing, which was not, however, particular
" successful AT dawn the whole party
swung and waddled away in digust and
chagrin.
The Germans had lost but one OF. their
force, August Krumpelhelm, a promis-
ing young engineer, from Bingen. who
was struck on the head in such way as
to fracture his parietal bone so severely
that, fever setting in, he died in two
days. Two prisoners were taken, who
Were sent under guard to the Gold
Coast, and are now on their way to
Berlin, whence we doubtless shall soon
receive intelligence of them.
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