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Show A yucet African jreopic. Strange stories are told of the Dokos, who live among the moist, warm bamboo bam-boo woods to the south of Kaff a and Susa in Africa. Only 4 feet high, of a dark olive color, savage and naked, they have no fire. They live only on ants, mice and serpents, diversified by a few roots and fruits. They let their naila grow long, like taions, the better to dig for ants and the more easily to tear in pieces their favorite snakes. The Dokos used to be invaluable as slaves, ana tney were taken in large numbers. The slave hunters used to hold up bright colored clothes as they came to the bamboo woods, where these human monkeys still live, and the poor Dokos could not resist re-sist the attractions offered by such superior su-perior people. They crowded round them and were taken in thousands. In slavery they were docile, attached, obedient, with few wants and exoellent health. These queer people have one fault a love for ants, mice and serpents ser-pents and a speaking to Yer with their heads on the ground and their heels in the air. Yer is their idea of a superior power, to whom they talk in this comical com-ical manner when they are dispirited or angry or tired of ants and snakes and longing for unknown food. Popular Magazine. |