New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-20
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source of the river Did, . It was built originate
NV Kadmon: Kadmon is the man who bought Goa
ground by the size of cows skin and who
brought people in boxes 10 Tap INT, and took
others back lie was In the habit Of hidinr
the cows under the ground The little race "a
the west of the sandy ridge south OF the
Atlas. who captured the Nasimonian explorers
are called by Herodotus Troglodytes The cira
OF the Southern Atlas are frequently dotted with
cave dwellings which must have been used by
q small race, as they are not more than five feet
high. They are now no longer used though some
OF these dwarfs OF the river Dora, or Dldoo in
the Bani mountains, near Tinzone, are stil
Troglodytes. They were probably the tribe Of
dwarfs which ancient writers say owned re-
markably small breed OF horses. The ponies Of
the dwarfs near the Sahara ore famed for their
endurance and speed, and are therefore used by
them in hunting ostriches Rabbi Juda, a Shu.
bach Jew, OF Ternata, In the ORA Valley. says:
The little people are not MOslcms. II Is san
posed that they worship Didoo lsiri. They keen
their feast by themselves. There are many Of
them near the Soudan: the Arabs fear them and
pay to be allowed to pass through their county,
Their horses can do without water for four days.
and are called dwiminagh they that drink ,he
wind).'
I'm Europe and Britain the dwarfs Of
early ages are remembered as smiths, artifccn
aud magicians, but no one has coniectured where
they can have come from. III the ORA was, as
is believed by some to have been, great pre-
historic workshop, the birmingham Of the Bronze
Age. the problem could he easily settled. Tho
little and the larger Haratin are still great
workers in metal magicans, and potent doctors,
whose staple remedy seems 10 be safe, il not
sure They make little books, which ore carried
about as charms or are placed in water which
has marvellous virtues that can cure all the Ils
that flesh is heir to. Wherever the lIaratin
went thew must have astonishcd the natives
as they wear peculiar haik, which has large
eye on its back about yard in length II is
probable that the earliest traditions Of Greece
descibed wandering bands of masons and smiths
as the men with the eye, which in time may
have become the men with only one eye-thc
Cyclops. The skill of the modern CycOps is de-
voted to sinking deep wells. The well-sinkers
of Morocco come from the Ora 20 the cities porth
Of the Atlas and are still To be seen wearing
their Cyclopean haik. In Northern Morocco there
is belief that there is under the ground
race OF little men who can be heard at work.
The mention Of these little Vulcans reminds U.S.
adds Mr.. Halliburton, that the father Of the gods
the oldest of all, Vulcan Or Patah, the eighth Of
the earliest system of Egyptian deites, was
PataelSi, and was represented as dwarf
Classical mythology has made Vulcan lame and
deformed, while his workmen, the seven Cy-
clopes,' were supposed TO represent the earliest
race of men, those progenitors of mankind whom
the HindOos worship as the Pitris II lie, the
greatest, was a dwarf the other seven must
also have been dwarfs What q beginning for
the gods of antiquity-seyen dwarf masons with
their pygmy mastermason Well may the
IIaratins boast, the old AtanteS did, that they
were the oldest people in the world. and that
all other nations got their gods from them