Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-07-08
MARRY AT EIGHT YEARS.
British Explorer Ast5nishes London with
Band of Dwarfs from
Africa.

The six pigmies brought by Col. Har-
rison from the great unknown forest Of
central Africa have arrived in Loudon.
A few years ago Stanley set the world
talking of the strange little men whom
he discovered on his great march across
Africa. Yesterday the six pigmies, first
of their race to leave the swampS and
forests of central Africa, rode through
London in couple of four-wheeled cabs,
one of them smoking a Havana cigar as
naturally as a stock broker.
Since Sir Walter Raleigh brought his
red Indians to England over 800 years
ago there have been no such strange Wis
itors as these little human monkeys from
the darkest depths of darkest Africa.
OF the six pigmies four are men and
two are women, but even Col Harrison,
who discovered them in their forest
home, knows of no relationship between
them.
The little men treat the little women
as inferior beings, who ought TO do as
they are told. There are no signs OF af
lection among them, save, perhaps, that
Gorrigi, the younger and better looking
of the women, spends most Of her time
i'll gazing upon Mongogo, the youngest
smallest and liveliest of the little men,
who is one yard tall in his bare feet.
The names and ages of the six pigmies
are:
Magani IMAM ....................ah about -
Mafanti manl ................,...ab about 80
Mattuka IMAM ....................ah about -
Mongogo IMAM ...................ah about ~
Mofoupi tWomanl ................ about 30
Gorrigi (womanl about IL
Magani, the chief" is feet high
and the tallest of the six. He is a splcn-
Oily developed pigmy. with broad shout
derS, deep chest. and grizzly gray wills
ktrs- He walks with digniied .swae
ger. gets most of the cigars, and gen
orally cGmports himself like fUIcst
king.
The pigmes have little more intelr-
gence than had Consul the educated are.
and when at home i'll the African forest
they do nothing but hunt with tiny
spears, eat what they kill, sleep off the
effects, and occasionally chant Il mourn
full dirge and dance a solemn jig.
In appearance they are less like apes
than like diminutive negroes The
beauty, GOrrigi, has an oval face, rath-
er Of the Nubian type.
Living near the equator-t'ol. Harrison
found them in the forest southwest Of
Lake Albert, at the head of the Me :
they reach maturity at an earlier age
even than Hindus. They marry at :
have grown up children at 20 and are
too old at 40 for anything but the grave
The only language they speak is Swahil
the tongue of the Uganda folk.
The little men look "a harmless as
boys as they lay about in the cabin of
Thames launch, which brought them
from the 0restes, at Albert dock. 10
Charing Cross pier. Dressed in thick
WOODEN combinations, blue cloth ''shor,s. ."
aud black overcoats, with tail conical
monks hoods, they lolled happily on the
cushioned seats, alternately sleeping. NIB
bling penny cakes, and gazing at moth
ing in particular.
They followed Col. Harrison off tn.
launch at Charing Cross with the sim
plicity of children. climbed into cabs, and
not CLEAN of intelligence lit up Their
faces as they drove away
They are in excellent health and ap
pear to be thriving on plain European
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