The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1904-05-18
QUEER PIGMY RACE.
AMERICAN TRAVELLER TELLS OF
ODD AFRICAN TRIBE.
Are Clever and Bright and Terrorize
Natives Of Ordinary Size-Nar-
rator Covers rs, 900 Miles
in Journey.

Edgar Cell, an American, reached
London recently after a journey of
10000 miles in many climes. He visit
ed number of mission fields during
lis travels. which consumed three
years.
He speaks in the highest terms of
missionary enterprise. whether con-
sidared from a commercial, humanita-
rian or spiritual aspect serious
menace, however, exists to native
races, he says, in the increasing num-
Der of non-Christian white people con-
tiguous TO the native populations.
Mr.. Cell spent a month in the great
pigmy forest of Central Africa, where
ne studied and made photographs of
these remarkable people. He lived in
leaf hut constructed for him by the
pigmies at Camp Gorilla, in the very
heart Of the forest. Though he encoun-
tered NO danger from the natives, the
falling of great trees which have no
tap roots was a continual menace. The
place, too, is alive with wild animals,
and colonies of monkeys inhabit the
upper branches of the trees
The pigmies, says Mr.. Giel, are the
greatest meat eaters he ever saw. They
do no agricultural work, but devote
their whole time to hunting. A tribe
of people of ordinary size who lnhabit
the forests are completely terrorized
by the pigmies, who make them do all
their work.
The pigmies are very clever, bright
and independent people, and are de-
scribed by Mr.. Cell as "the japanese
of Africa"
In the reeesses of the great forest he
found a modern fertilization, partly
built Of stone. and surrounded with a
moat in course of construction.
Starting from San Francisco Mr.. Cell
visited the Sandwich islands. many Of
the Pacific islands, New Zealand, Aus
tralia, the islands of Torres Straits,
New Guinea. the Philippines, Japan,
the mountains of northern Korea.
Vladivostok. Hardin, Borneo and the
Straits.
He then crossed China, commencing
at Shanghai. and Travelled up the Yang
tse and across into Burma. Proceeding
to Nepal, along the Thibet frontier and
through India, he steamed to Mombasa
and visited East Africa. travelling
through Uganda into the Congo. He
came down the Congo to the coast. and
reached London by way of steamer
from Sierra Leone
In discussing his experience in Man
churia Mr. Cell said he met with some
opposition from Russian officials. Once
on the railway his notebook was taken
away, and he only recovered it by ply
steal force, and on a second occasion,
when a paper was snatched from his
hands, he struck the officer who tool,
it and threw him across the railway
carriage. When it was found that Mr.
Cell possessed a transport signed BY
the Russian ambassador at Washing
ton the officer he had assaulted gave
him special steamer to convey bin
to Newchwang.
The thing that impressed him most
in Manchuria was the mushroom
growth of the cities along the railway.
He found on inquiry that even the ar
tisans and shopkeepers were really
soldlers, so that IL is difficult to say
what force Russia has available in the
| country.
He was also struck by the presence
everywhere of japanese. not mere COO
lies. but men of intelligence. In the
far west of China he found them. and
in northern Korea they were present
in great numbers.