Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-11-01

statements that neither Of these clasars
transmits It's small size 10 the children,
dlsposes OF the theory that the dwaus
met with In Morocco are merely few
families OF ordinary dwHfis. Far from
being stuuted and deformod, through
rickets, they are very strong, extremely
courageous, and wonderfully active,
and are, IT ia stated, feared by the other
Moors. Nor eau they bc true dwaris.
This class 10 GO extremely rare that
France and England possess each only
one skeleton, and the chance " meet.
Ing with n true dwarf In a spataeiy
settled country like Morocco would
be very remote. IL, then, dozen
dwarfs, not stunted or deiormed by
ricketts,, have found their way ~
Northern Morocco, the inference IL
conclusive that they cannot be true
jwatis0 but must be racial and con.
nected with some dwafi tribe.
But any doubt that might at first
sight seem 20 exist on this polnt IN
settled when mention that the dwafis
seen In Morocco are not diminutivo
Moors, resembling their C0unlrymon In
everything except size, but are NO strlk-
ingly distinct from the other people OF
Morocco, that even u they were not
dwaris, we should have to rot
them down rs different and
peculiar race. Among the points
which distinguish them from MUors,
Arabs, Jews, Befbefs, Negroes anu
Mulattoes OF Morocco aru the follow
ing. Their wonderful agility, q reddish
complexion which Is Characteristic OF
almost all dwarf races, aud the peculiar
wOolly hair growing In tufts which
distinguishes nearly all dwarf race.
aud their OfIshOots: They differ even
IN dress, etc, and ehave their faces
al abomi nation TO Aloslom Moors. In
all these PARTICULAR, ~ well as In sire,
they are precisely similar TO the dwaris
Of Central Africa.
So far, at least, as early ages are con.
cerned, the idea IL not new one that
dwaris once existed south OF Noun
Atlas; for II has for some years past
been subject OF contention between
French geOgnpherl aud French an.
ihropOgisis. The former maintain that
the place described by Herodutus,
where the NgsamOnian explorers were
captured by dwarf TrOglDiytos, must
have been an oasis IN tue northwest.
cru pnrt Of the Sahara, not far to the
south OF southcast OF Morocco.
The country OF the NRsamoninns
called by Pr0cOplns, XabN, 10 now
known ~ the oasis Of hizNb. Accord.
ing to HerOuOtus, some Young
NnsAmOnian explorers went west fof
many days until they reached au Oasis
where they were captured by a dwarf
race Of rroglodyte-, who were all
uccrOmancefB, anu lived Ola "a river
that ran from west 20 east
The lwatiH mentiOuCI by Aristotle
cannot have lived IN ktua r. al
Africa, Rs they pCestsgul a iumAfNauly
small breed OF horse.
The fOck-cul chamber in tue Atlas,
whether Intended for st0rchOusu-, or
TOT residence, UT fOr refuge, are 10 uni.
fOrmly Eve feet high, that they most
pr0Unoly were made by dwarf Irosio.
dytus.
Tho views Of French gcognphcrs on
this buhjoot were contested IN an ablv
article on the Pygmies OF Antiquity IA
the last number vi the AcIlC.p ms.
tOriquc, On the ground that We can
'iuu no trace oil there ever having been
dwaTis north OF the sahara. By an
odd coincidence letter was received
by me Ia that very month from Mir.
Thomas Martin IN which hc shid
that having become familiar with the
peculiar click IN vogue Ia the speech
Of South African tribes Who have In.
herlted or derived II from the Bush
men, he was surprised In 1858, at hear
ing IN Mogador, port on the south.
west coRst Of Morocco, some natives
from Sus and Sahara using clicks slmi,
lar 20 those Of South African races. He
naturally came To the conclusion that
the Bushmen must have In early ages
found their way NJ far north ~ Mt
Atlas.
The President. In the oourAe Of his
paper on my pamphlet, drew attention
70 the peculiar indentatlon Ia dwarf
skulls al the base VI the nose. Ii this
~ confined 10 tho skulls Of African
dwaris, 1t would seem to indicate that
II may possibly DO connected with
South African clicks either as cause OF
elect. He also very properly cuu-
nec'ed the dwarfa seen In Morocco
with the Akkas OF tho M0mbulto
country. There cannot be doubt thnt
there is an extensive district 10 the
south OF Morocco, bounding sOuthetiy
on the Sahara, which IL called Akka,
anu which rs said 10 be the hcadquar.
ters OF the Atlas dwaris, and, also, that
there Is another Aka ON the shores OF
the Albert NyaHza, which Is also in'
nabitcd by dwarf race called Aka.
Which was the original Aka! Qua
trefagus mentions tradition among
the dwhrfs Of Equatorial Africa that
their ancestors came from the north
west, l. e., from tho direction OF
Morocco.