The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-08-29
REMARKABLE DWARF MEN
moRDEs or CURIOUS PONIES IN
THE NILE COUNTRY.

OF superstition Is invaded by them.
All countries more or less, but Ger
many ia particular, arc infested by
gnomos and COLLINS. But the man who
knew most about the real dwaris was
NJ do Ouatroiages, who died only n
few months ago. This eminent seien-
tinc man devoted much Of his life TO
n study Of pigmies, as ho called them,
and n posthumous work on the sub
/ ject has just been published by d. APP
pleton & Co
The anoients quite generally were
acquainted with the pigmios. Homer
speaks OF them, and they figure in
many OF the legends OF antiquity. /
Aristotle described them as dwelling /
in Africa towards the sources Of the |
Nile, aud it was in this very region |
that modern explorer, Sohweiniurth, !
discovered race Of dwarfs. Says
Aristotle: "Ihis is the district
which the pigmies inhabit, whose ex-
istence is not fable. There is really,
o. men say, a species Of men of little
stature, and their horses are little
also. They pass their time in cav
ems"
Schweinfurth found no horses among
his dwaris, but neighboring tribes had
COWS and sheep Of such small size as to
be truly liliputians. Two pigmies
we're brought to Europe and adopted
by Count Miniacalehi, who brought
them up and. educated them. They
proved intelligent and did quite we'll
in their studies.
The pigmies Of Schweinfurth, whose
real existence has given rise to so
many fables, called themselves Akkas.
The territory occupied by them is Of
, considerable extent, in the neighbor-
hood Of degrees north latitude and
% degrees east longitude. At the
time of the explorers visit they mum
bered nine distinct tribes, each hav-
ing its own chief. Schweinfurth
passed through the country OF the
= Man. Mans, and penetrated to that
d of the Monbuttos. 1t was at the
It court of a native King named Munza
that he discovered tine dwarf race.
b Munza maintained a little colony OF
the dwarfs near his royal residence.
At that time the various tribes OF Ak
kas had submitted to Moummeri, one
of Munza's vassals, who had come ia
render homage to his sovereign a.
re the head of several hundred of the
pigmies. Thus Schweinfurth had 6
good opportunity for studying them
re In exchange for one Of his dogs, h,
os obtained from Munza a young male
- Aka, who died subsequently OF dys
g EMERY.
y Subsequent travellers encountered
w some of the dwarfs. Munza, having
It's learned their value as objects OF curl
~ osity, gave some of them from time t
) time to buyers of ivory who visite
IRE him. Thus an individual of the rae
reached Khartoum, sent as a presen
-. TO the Governor of the Soadan b
, d1r Emin Bey. An explorer name
ef Miami, follwing in Schweinfurth
footsteps, finally arrived among th
Monbuttos. Succumbing to the ia
Il, tigues of the journey, he died, o.
Fps oueathing to the Geographical Soc
ETY. of Italy two young Akkas, whoI
20. 20 ne had got III exchange for e dog an
.ou q calf. These dwarfs, Tebo and Chat
ust allah, we're the ones adopted by CouI
n ra Miniscalchi.
ew Some anthropologists were incline
to believe that the Akkas were fake
so to speak, and that Tebo and Chat
ted allah would grow to good size son
sky day. Chairallah died, but Tebo gre
AL All, to manhood, and did not pass II
stature Of the average pigmy
reported. His height was fo
ling feet seven inches. The me
S. stature of these dwarfs appea
49,. to be about four feet four and or
JIs4 half inches. This reckoning max
them the smallest people in thewor
lren the Bushmen, perhaps, but not CT
ma tainly, excepted. The color Of
''''0 Akkas, according to Schweinfurth,
first like that of coffee slightly roastt
E G1i'e' Count Miniscalchi noticed that it v
darker in summer and paler in whit
mp, ttle A marked characteristic of the
kas is an enormous development of
says NY domen, which causes the adults to
75c semble the children OF negroes
80 the photographs of Tebo and Chair
- lab this feature is most pronounc
I'd The chest, comparatively narl
- above, is dilated below in order to c
' an tain the huge paunch. But it is c
ny ulo dent that this popularity is not t
~. race characteristic, being largely (
rilla, TO the manner III Wnlon 'no PiS
this live and to the quality of their 70
and After some weeks of wholesome
Weet Tebo and Chairallah lost their
stomnchs. The Akkas have short
Ia 80 ~orv small hands. Their ser