The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-03-19
pYGMIES 0F1'HE AMAZON

PYGMIB 0FIHE AMAZON :,
THE DISCOVERIES OF A TRAVEL
LER IN SOUTH AMERICA I'll
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A Tribe of Little People With Strange
Customs-Their Peculiar Appearance
Caused Ey Gorsing After Hunt-- t.
u,owguns for W eapons-Metal workers S
A Boston man lately returned from
South America has brought marvel &
lous tale of the remarkable discovery =,
Of race Of pygmies inhabitlng the
vallev Of the Amazon. He has not
only seen them, writes tribune
correspondents, but stayed in their
villages, entered their houses ana SAT
J about their campfres, been with them
, On the hunt and witnessed some OF their
I RELIGIOUS ceremonies. Ebcn }. Sulh'
1 van was called to South America TWO
8 years ago on commercial business mess
b which required his travelling IN nesle
}. known regions. For months, accom-
j. panied only by natives, he rowed up
|, the mighty Amazon and its tributaries
IS in a. canoe, In this way he penetrated
IS to the headwaters Of the Rio Negro,
}" which mingles with the tributaries Oh
'g tha Orinoco in Guiana. Here 1t was
re that he came upon nomadic race OF
10 pygmies. roeton a. Fol-
be low Of the Royal Geographical Society,
e. has taken great interest in Mr. ooi-
1t, livan's discovery. Mr.. Halliburton Is
ID, ona Of the best authorities in the !l
he world on pygmy races. He thinks II
he Of the greatest value to the antnropo'
he oo;sts to have the tradition o
ed nyemy races in South America recorded
ish L i've Hnmboldt in the first years OF TIL
As century ce so strikingly verified Hum
Of boldt said these pygmles were SUP a
ere nosed to inhabit the country AZ Vi
We, hea1waters Of the Orinoco, but he al
Two not visit that region, and sugseste
7al. That the runors OF this strange race
aid man were unfoundea. MI. oolllVo
L. said:
Of the tributaries Of the upper Amaze
~ race Of remarkably small Poop
the who were more likely of an lna1
day than Of q negro origin, Judging ire
lsus their hair and the peculiar color OF t
in skin. which was brilliant llVld r&
rs dish yellow. They are very ug'y
Ints, shone Their stomach, which is d
like tended in the back as we'll as IN FRO
ding is big and out of all proportion to tn
hers, tiny. spindling arms and legs. l IN
de- this is : caused by their anaconda, !,
dis practice of gorging. After hunt ii
y be, p p;11 eot like animals and then
other about listlessly in the hot tropi 1 !,
rs TO for days, till hunger again 1'nPe'S "
ched,, to get more game 49,, ,,,oo
rcum. bo metal-worlers and Zip Their u
ID air With bits Of hardened iron or $
mi: made from native ores. Ihese =: q
nimal are projected from o blowgun, III II
" ad' boys toy, butwith deadly e me-. ro'
ritain, con ACTUALLY propel light dart se'
;uries, %nndred feet by the mere powe
popu their lungs in blowing through t
every They are a race Of rowing hunters n
ms Of warriors. They ore vain ana D
I'd the fnl neople, In conversing with
rought a 80 r. the extent of their tribes
victim Mako q gesture to impress one
" gen. their vast numbers and polnC !! =
ination west and southwest as their !
,straint Tb;s would indicate from the
It fully where I was the headwaters {
two OF Orinoco or else that part OF Vene
ill hold near the Brazilian border OF
Negro watershed. l AlhK .l"v
nav number ten thousand or
thousand souls: e.,
0 for?" "These people are not over u. 1o'
eight inches in height, ana inc :,
bad and are less than this. Clotnlne *
Womba. only by adults and consists 5' m1 :,
Oh cold; a cloth. Their hair is done
fetch'im stuck together by mud IN a
7arrigul, crotesque aud repulslve 1ashlon
'urley Of have tribal marks that cover w: Wv
as borne hodv and head made by sllts
le doctor skin. Their huts ore some'line
structed of mud, in when ca
the long are low and resemble nall: Icy
Q doctor an opening at one emu c", os
It into it. soneos.' The samo lame al
neck to their huts when MADE 1rom ~
nd alone woven grass. ,
cant Dali sThey are, I believe, an p''s
though am informed tna' !,
atients in them have some IDEA Oh ~ ny
steam the mems of clay pottery. IL
arth will fetch gods or idols, wn' 1 -,
then fill animals, md arevery ugly ~
Of clay pottery. They they, nave ~ 1 IL
vel" tors also, who dress ~ "
atient was fashion possible ana perform
e-year-old. anything their patient wiSn :
Giving to q particular goa,
to the patients ability to pa
the names Of these pygm,ype'
"a has been ronnmber them,