The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-10
SOME STRANGE THINGS
FOUND BY EXPLORER S

oTra HE pygmies Of Central Africa have
been encountered by another trav-
eler. lay missionary named
Lloyd, and he gives an interesting ac-
count of them in his just published vol
ume.
On the sixth day after entering the
great forest in his Journey from the Toro
country to the west coast he saw in a
tree what appeared 10 be a large monkey
Being in need of food. he raised his gun
to shoot II.
Don't fire-it's a man. cried the ma
tive boy who was accompanying him.
Whereupon. in Mr. Lloyds words the
pygmy ran along the branch on which
he stood and. jumping from tree to tree
soon disappeared.
The traveller saw no more Of tho little
people until after he had pitched his camp
that night. Sitting at his tent door, he
awoke suddenly to the consciousness that
a host of small bright faces were study
ing him silently through the foliage OF
the thcket.
Even as he watched. a brown mannikin
peered at him from behind the trunk of
n large tree Immediately in front of the
tent.
Mr.. Lloyd raised his voice. and. in the
language of the Toros-a tribe further
east. among whom he had lived-extend
ed a friendly greeting to the pygmies.
One of them who afterward proved TO
be the chief. returned the salutation. and
shyly advanced TO speak with the white
faced giant.
He answered Mr.. Lloyd's questions the
explorer says. with marvellous intelli-
gence, speaking in a rapid, sing-song
way" and impaired much information
about his people and their native forest.
This is how the missionary describes
his tiny hosts:
BROAD chested. with muscles finely de-
veloped. short thick necks. and small.
bullet head. the lower limbs were mas
sive and strong to a degree. The chest
was covered with black. curly hair. and
most of the men wore thick. black
boards Each carried either bow and
culver of arrows or short throwing
spears Round their arms they wore iron
rings. and some of them had these round
their necks also.
Hardly less interesting than the pyg-
mics were the cannibals encountered by
Mr.. LLOYD Immediately after emerging
from the forest. He describes them as
splendid race, upright as dart. with
heads erect and bright, intelligent faces"
In conversation with him they defended
their cannibalism on the ground that az
man IL the noblest Of animals, his hesh
must be the most nourishing.
Wishing to amuse them MT. LLOYD
fitted his biycle together and rode into
,
I'M at the spectacle of n white man on
a snake"
The largest tusk Of ivory in the world
has recently been put on exhibition in
San Francisco. The mammoth tusk Is
twelve feet ten inches long, its largest
circumference is twenty-three inches and
its weight is 200 pounds.
The tusk was discovered by two broth
ers While prospecting for gold along the
auckland river, Alaska, they noticed
white shining object sticking upward
about a foot from the river bed of blue
gravel. Upon closer inspection this OBJ
jet proved to be lump OF solid ivory.
Thinking that this was but another bit
OF fossil ivory which they had been coll
lecting while on their way they com
menced to excavate the object. After
much hard labor the whole tusk was
finally brought from it's resting place. and
the two men were lost in amazement and