The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-06

lions OF the nerves quite unknown. Even
toothache will rarely be heard of, still
more rarely seen.
But the most efficient tests of general
health are fine build, muscular strength,
and readiness of the flesh to heal under
injury. Upon each of these points the
evidence is overwhelming In favor Of saw
ages. There are races of low stature
among them, as throughout the Far East;
but Rajah Brooke could find plenty of his
subjects under feet inches In hight who
would hold their own in a trial of strength
against European athletes. Joke. the
Kennowit warrior who carried Walter
Watson, in a chair, seven miles over
jungle path, with one halt of ten min
utes, was very little over feet. Watson
weighed fully sixteen stone-I knew them
both. But most Of the savage tribes show
a stature and a chest equal TO those OF
Europeans, when not superior. Humbolt
pronounced the Indians of the Orinoko the
finest specimens Of the human race. OF
their neighbors on the Amazon, Wallace
says: 1.-THE development of the chest Is
such as / believe never exists in the best
formed Europeans, exhibiting a splendid
series of convex undulations, without a
hollow In any part Of It," In spite OF
drink and degradation, the physique OF
the Indians in the United States Is still
above the average Of whites. The Zulu
Is almost becoming a proyerb for superb
development but other Kaflirs equal him;
and the biggest group OF men l ever saw
were bastard Griquas, belonging to some
nomadic families. encountered when l
lost my way on the veldt by Campbell
Grounds But The most tremendous crea-
lures in my experience are Kroomen. In
average hight they do not equal the Pa
guam giants of New Guinea, but their
breadth of shoulder Is almost deformi-
ty.
-pouar ~ ,,,tecla ts not necessarily a
sign of health, but II demands a note.
Drake was cool-headed man, and truth
full above all, but he wrote that The In
dams of California are Commonly so
strong Of body that that which two or
three of our men could hardly bear one
of them would take upon his shoulders
and without grudging carry IL easily
away, up hill and down hill, an English
mile together" One Is embarrassed by
the choice of testimony as to the mus
cular powers OF the negro, and in truth it
Is not required, for every one has friends
somewhere in Africa l have mentioned
the astounding feat of the Dyak Joke
within my own knowledge; the present
Rajah Brooke and Mrs. McDougall refer
TO it in their books But other Dyaks
saw nothing wonderful in the achieve
ment Humboldt weighed the loads OF
ore which Indian serfs carried to the sur
face from a vast depth underground in
MEXICO. Tie nmseu was tlfed Tor the day
with one journey, empty-handed. But
those Indians brought up $40 to $50 pounds
of stone every time, and they worked with
out pause from dawn 10 sunset. Hum
bosdts observations on the absence Of
dwarfs. hunchbacks and deformed persons
in general among the Indians of America
and their length OF life. are to the point
/ have no room for details; perhaps the
editor win allow me TO deal with them
another time. Briefly, however, deformi-
humboldt viii moi admit the easy expla-
nation that children so afflicted die In in