The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-07-24
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Nit"F spending fftv years fHp3ugs
iag the ~l|da af Central Africa.
Ne~ Guinea Barueo. china and
( visiting many other countries Of IN
Eageat ia the far east. Dr william
Edgar Cell returned 20 the United
States about q year ago broken Ia
health 8ut 'o a.s him today one
would not suspect that he had ever
known an hours Illness tla spent
several months resting aud recuper
ating and Is nov Ia the very bloom
Of health AS soon a. his former
strength Was regatuod Dr. Cell be
gan lecture tour of the country
/ He has visited nearly all The leading
ChautauquHs and arrived In Waxa-
/ hachie this morning TO riIl engage
ments tonight and tomorrow night
at he only real ChautauQua assem-
+ bly, In Texas. Dr. Cell is not merely
a Traveller, who has confined his yis
! its to coast countries, but is an OK
plorer In all that the term implies
/ He ts one OF the very few white men
who have penetrated caunibal New
/ Guinea as faY as Mount Douglas,
visited the head hunters in Borneo
and eaten with violent wild men in
other South Sen ArChipelagoes,
where IL is said they have human
chops for supper and fricaseed in
fants for breakfast, although Mr.,
! Cell says this was not a part of the
menu on the occasion of his visit He
has seen more savage tribes than
any other white man of modern
times.
When Il reporter called on DR.. Cell
in the parlor of the Rogers hotel
this morning he was introduced to
a man who stands seven feet, less
nine inches. He is a man of almost
perfect physique Il real son of Anak,
powerful in the physical and mental
realm. He is a brilliant converse
tionalist and talks Interestingly OF
his thrilling experiences in pagan
lands. He is big man who has been
a student of little men, a whole race
of them. He is the worlds best au-
thority on the Central African Pig
mics
What are the Pigmies like"
asked the newspaper man.
| They're small" ," was the startling
reply, but twinkle in The big mans
leye indicated that he did not consid-
er the subject exhausted with that
truistic dictum Then he went on to
describe the exciting journey he
made to get into the center of the
forest of the eternal twilight, where
live the race of men, short of stature
but keen of mind, side by side with
the giants: The latter are farmers,
who furnish the breadstuffs for the
little fellows, and do it not always
of their own accord. DR.. Cell said
it was mistaken idea that the Pig
mics and Dwarfs were the same race
iof people The Pigmies, he said, were
much smaller in stature than the
Dwarfs but possessed a higher state
OF intelligence DwartS are to be
found in number of places, but the
ionlv colony of Pigmies in existence
is to be found in the forest of eter-
NAL twill ght on the equator in Cen
tral Africa.
How big are the giants?" asked
the reporter.
about as big as | am, replied
the learned traveller, and this state
ment is easy of belief, because he
measures six feet and three inches in
heigt
These races dwell in the region
between the west boundary. of the
Semliki Grass Lands and the conflu-
lence of the Aruwini and Congo nv
ers. in the exact spot mentioned as
their home by Horodotus and the
lother ancieuts who wrote of the eX-
plorers of that day.
Dr. Cell is an Independent invesu-
gator of the sociology which musJ
be the basis of effective humantzing
work aud is one of the world s great
,est explorers His tour through Cen
tral Africa was made between the
routes travelled by Stanley and Liv-
ingstOne He said that trip through
Africa was attended by more diftlcul-
ties and greater hardships than
through any other country on earth.
. u is "a trip that Is fraught with many
dangers as the country is inhabited
lonly los Wild men. while wilder
beasts are 20 DE encountered ON
every side While making his ON
ploration of this country me- was ac-
companicd hy about two hundred
natives
His Journey through China was
the most irving trip ever attempted
.uy any white man. the disBur" trIv-
elcd being about 5000 miles lir
made many hitherto unknown dis
.yoyerlgs Ia thnt country and ihH
Chimes" as a people afforded him H
most interesting study
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