The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-02-16
GoriIIas, Plgmies and Men with Tails.


From the annual address of Chic
Justice Daily before the A american &c
ographical Society, recently delivered
at Chjckering Hall New York We make
the following extract:
PIaMIEs AND GoRILLAs
A great deal of the address was de
voted to the subject of African ex
plOration. The subject Of the pig
mics of Africa" said the speaker, "has
been discussed by Mr. Marrette and
the Marquis de Compeigne. When
our Fellow, NJ. du Chaillu, laid before
us the account of the piginies he had
found in Western Africa, near the
equator, it was received in certain
parts OF Europe with increGulity but
these pigmies of the western coast
have since been seen bv others, and
the existeuce of races Of pigm es is
now established by the facts gathered
by Schweinfurth, Miami and others in
A frica and bv recent researches in In
dia Mr. Marrette says that these
pigmies ware well known to the an
cient Egy ptians, and that there is a
bas relief, la the sepulchre Of thc Ne.
cropolis of Sangarale, of the fifth dy-
nasty, upon which two piglnies are
represented, having the features of DR..
Schweiniurth's Akku. He saws the
pigmies of antiquity were natives of
Pun, which he indentifies with the
modern SOlnali country. The Phe-
nicians, he says, came from Pun, and
were not an Asi1 tic race, and that near
them a race OF dwarls caitel Bess, who
still exist in the Somal country. if the
information deduce6 By II engin could
be trusted He exhibited to the
Egyptian Geocraphi col Society repre-
sentatiou Of the Bess, some of whom
had tails, which may lie gratifying in
telligence To those evolutionists who
insist upon our descent from the mon
kew Mr. Marrette believes that the
Akkas OF Schweinfurth, who dwell in
the Nyan country, were also known to
the ancient Egyptians, aud that Nam
in their language meant dwarf NJ.
de Compeiene thinks that these pig.
mics extend from the south OF Mons
butta To the Yaboon.
\
HASp.
"An inhabitGnt of the Gaboou has
reached Berlin. a live Young gorilla,
and is now in the Berlin aquarium
DR.. Hermes SAYS that lie mods, claps
his hands, wakes up and stretches
himself like a man; that lie sleeps
eight hours, eats only what his keeper
eats, and requires hi II to be constantly
by him. He was taken sick and was
restored Ey the use OF that A frican
specific, quinine and the doctor saws
that he showed his tongue and squeez
eel the doctors hand as if to indicate
that he felt assured Of his recovery,
Capt in Burton assembled the Congo
to the rapids and made journey
through the gorilla country, of which
I've has gwen an account Captain
Hay has visited the district of Akem
in west Africa, and found the country
rich in minerals and studded with
well built towns. He found a peculiar
nalformatiOn among the male Sex OF
this pe0ple--a protuberance of the
cheek bones under the eyes, taking the
form of horns on either side of the
nose-and bas sent two photographs
of these horned men to England
DARwIN's MEN WITH TAILS.
THE Rev George Brown. mis-.
sionary who visited the islands of the
northeast coast OF New Guiana DIES.
cribes the natives as nude savages oi
the Oriental negro type, who live
mole like beasts than human beings
He found cannibaism prevailing
throughout the islands, not as among
some other savages, as a religious rite
but as a means OF subsistence II,
has given the details OF what he saw
of this horrible practice, which are
too revolving to repeat He SAYS ht
was assured by the natives that there
was in the island race of human be.
ings with tais who were not monkeys
that the tail was bony and inflexible
so that those with this caudle appen
dage had to- dig = hole in the sand he
fore they could sit down, as they died
If the tail was broken We have thus
revived .he account of the men will
tails heretofore reported to exist il
Borneo and the interior of Africa, bu
always upon native information, witt
the exception of hearsay information
alleged to- have been given by a sailor
east away on the coast of Borneo. and
like all such information, Of littl,
value .