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Show UiVAKFS VM) MILIJ 31 EX. bTVHlCSUl lUEKRCKkATfnK8TVU) BVvllKICAX ExruuitnKL Whether lie who fuutid I'mlu or be who found the gorilla Iks entitled to the prior right of dlcovei r la Mr. StauU'j-'s edebraknl race uf dwarf Is a (jutiott tlut,onone sWe at Isast, fecn likely to be dh-ptite-J with wnrmtli. It does nt appear that cither M. d Chain a or Mr. Stanley can cJaim copyrlsht in thee Interesting little oile. Traveler proveifaUUy sea strange eights and tell tough ktotie-, and Africa has Ih u: lims been roIICc of more wonderful JileS than tver Mr. Itider Haggard Hag-gard lias tokl. Same of them we can not quite accept. The tuled men whUft were ofoklre-i p rted to Infest tli Afncan tonaU mayjojubly IwldeutiliCTl with M. 1-aul de Cliaiila's oM frieud, the gorilla. Ihe cynocej liall, or d..g-heo-sd mimfUilthej were AtUo) lu.1- not, unfortunately, been heard of uuring late year, nor, is it to be KKrettcd, have Mr totanhyoro'Jier rao-iern txplorera tueveedvd in re-UtK-overiiig proiuM.. iiiemotiiitir-ting iiiemotiiitir-ting race of the nark Cunttini.t the ooe-legsed man hw9 elmjle low WMSoiiiflii'. Htr Johu M n-cmvilie n-cmvilie azures u that .hi- lit pwtsoaor, Ivime on I. is Uwt, held It aloft, 'Ufehiekleth Lie whole bodj ' atient the tonne." llie eauUuus reader would pn4 laU h.ltale uowadayk to acvonl juuieHiTttl credence tu itoiit-s Mich 8 the. It tie canu fail to I frtnKk With the fact thatdwarts hive alu-ajs nxu.-e.i ! Irr narnaUun- of the Afncan traveler. I a the a nex pJorral parts of A'j-icti triliion reported the uxitteuce of u rare fi-ur feet high, who climbed trr-s like al, re dertHute of c!4he, reli-Smi, reli-Smi, j II jr,vt rumtiit and a lumou iNn-lreysixl v t Uulr InUtc 'i eat- ' lng live snaiee, an'-s ct Bi.iiiir mall dier. h-i cmf irtliV .rlp-ik)ii .rlp-ik)ii of the daifs f the interior U Ii serious rou'ri ut'un to the knowledge ti Hi 'u j'. t, and . ootwclJv9 mure ccHrly with 1 Mr. Sun e '. 11 , dwarf are, b tnji., aclUe aul skillful buiiters, but an. cannibals i.d not t le tiuted. Talee of ' uild men7' Ihe iuir-li;liiikof lie Diwin! n system bavcalHajs fa&rjualt-d tlie mult'tudo, nnd Uiejo.iulirUste lia, w it( out doubt, bet.li ver t flic i tive in cumulating tlie imaginittoii 'and ouUtyriteuf the travelir awl 1'ie thowmau. The occasional di-jtAvery di-jtAvery of mute, ravage and whrdly I uncultivated li iniau beings cviu iuj.lred Lint teas with a lullef in tlie wild rasa srJ !c-l ti I is dividing divid-ing the human racein hissttetnof !pgy into tro pcSt hoinoapl-j hoinoapl-j H9 orinau vu4vptib!o of civilization, civiliza-tion, am! homo fetus, a being which ; he dwcrlbo as "nmtc. hairy and jgoiugun allfuum." Si ience iwv a-ilav! a-ilav! rceogulxe l4it i.ne aperies' of human being tlie lwet Mvagef lioa Ing tract- ul eultu'e ami re Hutment, a hit h ivparale them ab-kiutely ab-kiutely frwm the btu'e creation It was not ahravti mj. Tlie ape men"' of southern Aslswcrt Srailt U lieved In at the liegiuilin,; of I e pitfcent centuiy. This dirouvirjr (if two of these creatures among the la'vrer. oil a couee plautilloii i.-attuslit i.-attuslit recorditl in the Journal of 'the Asia'lc Societt, of ileugal, in ls.-J, and tills uminwtance, no d ubt, Liioounu;eikeeral travehrs lu report iuffij J-Ut im-ouuteic with tbete tlnilur Inrings In iil'-f.re! iil'-f.re! ' part, uuiUt gn more Ur-cuai-tantiai as time vrtiton. Mu ally It wa anuou-ced tli&t tut Sjumtrau ttoU ffere the I orut o too tu-tiiHt ract, ealied Orung Ko.br and Orang Gugur, U.lh nuked ami coereu with hair, ai-d fit; latter pnsseettng many char aetrtielics of the ai tribe Sang arms, rcruding furvln-aJc rutraJ-lug rutraJ-lug Jaws, it i li !)- in Uie way of chin and n itMu In the waj of calf. otinuy years an it nassiid that a wild crvaiun -i sirlseviu or tljlit jui old bad liten C4i-tured C4i-tured in the fitreK of Ijxm. A bole fdmllj. Irxttui, had been fecund, but auoie died, and tlie Esther was detained in thecuunty l ordir of the king. Tlik tliild was Krao, who was alterwant cxbibitod rather ex. LfiistveJi- in l.uglauu and America. TJio girfe body was entirety covered with hair, but Virrhow and othir sclectibUwliosaw her prououneed hertute n true biamere, and 111 formation after -rd came from llinrtok that her lather was a iiati-3oflicji, and tli.it the mreuts, wlm dllletvd In no rtsTect from otben of their nice, had takiu advantage of the cJiild'it abnormal apjieaninre to let her cut on advau-tageoud advau-tageoud terms to a smart thou man. Moi-t recent accounts of the discovery dis-covery of the wild people have, when investigation was (ostlble, been proven to be equailyfallaeiMis. Four or Ave years ago tlioIJcrlln Anthropological faoclety recclrid a reportoftheexhtencoin thePuiu-an thePuiu-an It-lauds of a race of jo !e n 1U1 care six inches long, and of otbtni with wbite Ins nnd red hair who HedlutrvesaiAl made n&Iscs like UxMs but the other jittive ttenictl hs inclined to claim osnslmI.I with thseeCCcnttcies,anddecUred them to be deciodants of Kurop-caMWTetLed Kurop-caMWTetLed Ucn Uie coast many vlsteco. The fair comiltxon and iS I Mr r"' to a V9, Teuto.llc origluand it nny bojha i he Grct dlscax nvra of tl.ee mouirii dwellers dM not 'a"a. Gcrniau. AtanyrateroKibsequent hht vas thrown upon the dk-TLcxiitsnce dk-TLcxiitsnce of races of a !U ta- casta reported on toVrably "good authority, mostly young children, and all dating from the time wlitti I.uropc t-till contained denee foret-tH and impenetrable wamps and mura&tes. At this tiny, therefore, it Is impossible to ascertain tbero-lartion tbero-lartion of truth toalMhi in the descriptions of them which have tctn preserved. M-uiy of the Indl-viJuals Indl-viJuals uire probably insane, and there Is certainly no evidence thsl any of them belonged to a iieculbr race. |
