Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-01-23

The glossary - hficnn linruagtp
and lecte tfy dthi.nf co.,.
O1er u .hc- irW iQpn uiir~
you ~,u mt, u,vv OF iUui uegtu
irlits each consisting barely II few
hundred mon, who speak different
tongue. The native Of Afticn must b.
divided into two great nc,s--tho
BanteI PEOPLE ~ kaiiirs and the
Soudan negroa The various Bauiu
tribes that dwell In South Africa and
extend upward TO point overlapping
the equator speak only different
dialects, but Soudan ncgfos, from sene.
gal To the west and spreading fat east.
ward and TO the south, possess IN reality
several distinct tongues. IL Is not at
all unlikely that thu primitive language
OF those regions may he that ttill spoken
by the dwarf-. The overthrow vi some
big y Jtontate OF olicn time, the count.
less mlgfations Of tribes ever at war
with one another, the exclusive life Of
these smnll groups that dwell apart from
the more compact tribes under whose
protection they nbld, these anu many
other facts may he taken into ncrOunt,
not only for the political, hut nlsl for
the linguistic dispersion " the natives
" Africa Into 70 many fractional
tribes, each speaking IT, own tongue
Or dialect. Many VI thcsc trloe-,
moreover, are not pure. They have
mixed by inlurmarringe Or utherwisr
with Hnmltlo aud semitic people, aud
the result Is q real cumpJ-iium mix.
tuni Ufinces, tribes AMI tongues.
A. tuinx "a race VI hunters, THESE
dwaff- ARE not a lii ted ~ agricultural
I pursuits. iiuir = ttlcmunts ~ vi.
lngys are NJ the most primitive dies.
iltiou. They consist u ugslumtfa.
7 tons Ut small tound huts, which ATE
I readily taken TO plec,s aHd erected
/ elsewhere, accordingly A. thc site
/ chosen offer more favorable upplt'
I uiuitits Tor the chase. A. I huyUsaiu,
I they u.u sli,ll arrows ur DART tipped
with a poison ola vegetable origin, ia,
/ effect Oi which isYulos sni fatal. a
man belonging tu stanley rXt edition
who was wounded by ono 81 thtse ar
rows, died In "A few minute.
10 sum up, therefore, " nplNiis iu
! dubitablc that race Of iuun Ji anal Il
stature than that Of III" great tribes Il
ic found IN Africa inhahit The tUpica
regions u that vsst continent, tha
thc-u ulninutive penpl, urlpug a. 6
degenerate family, exhibiting tile mos
primitive state Of culture, Hni tia;
while indigenous 10 tie soil, they ar
10 he found scattered Ear and wide n
small gfoups Of a fow hundreds each
like the gypsics OF Europe, withOu
fixed settlements and wandering hb1u
the thick, inpouetrablc forests extend
Ing between the Congo river aud tn
Nile. The expression "dwsrf, " whiul
il applied % them, II, however som,
what misleading, ~ " not only lmpli,
an individual below the Ut iiuafy ~
Of tue klud, but convey ava idui0f de
formation, dwntfs usually having bead
too large for their bottles nnd othe
anomalies, which II not the Cnsc }
this instance. Our tropical rncc q
dimiuutlvc men and women, alth ug
small, are normally shaped, nud u
more deserve 10 be- called dwarA tina
tho Llplgndes and E'qnlmHux. III
/ more recent Ob,ervatlpnl ~ traveller
fully confirm the fact that the auclcu
were Ruquaintei with tails pvculli
race. aud ther. Is reason 10 belic'
! that the pygmies " stmbo and Her
dDius were the tamc ~ the RaluA NJ
the Wambutu. Dir. OsIsAu LINZ,
/ Prof ssor Of Geography NJ the uniye
8 siiy OF Prague, bohemia.