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Show A QUEER RACE OF PEOPMJ. ChumUrt' Journal, discussing a recent book of missionary travels iu Africa, thus alludes to one of the tribes which are found .in that ttrra iucpgnitat "But the strangest of all the stories I told ure of U10 Dokos, who lire, nmoug-thc nmoug-thc moit, warm bamboo woods to tho south of Caffn nnd Susn, Only tour feet high, of a dark, olive color; savage and naked, Ihey huvc neither hocs nor. temples; neither .fire nor human food' Tlicy bvp pnly on ants, mice, and serpent ' diversified by a few roots and, fruits; they 1 let their nails grow long, like talons tbo j better to dig for ants, and the more easily t to tear br pieces their favbrilo snake. They do not marry, but, live judiserimi1 native lives of animals, multiplying very rapidly, and will) ery ljitlq material a-i s.tinct. The mother nurses her child for only a short time, accustoming it to cat ants uud serpents as soon as possible; and when it can help ittclf, it wanders away where, it wilt, and the mother thinks no j more about'It.. The Dokoa are invaluable as slaves, aud are taken In large sum-. bcrs. The slnvedmntersbold up bright- colored clothes us ou as tiny cooi! to the moist, warm bsmlioo woods, where these bumau monkeys live, and lltrv ( poor Duko$ cannot resist the attraction offered by such superior poop!. They. 1 croiyd rouud them, and are taken in tlion- suuds. Ill slavery they arc docile, at-; taeiied, obedient, with few wants, and ; excellent lieHlih, flay hare only one fault a love of aiu, mice aud lerpents, ' aud hhbll of speaking to Ycr with men heads on the gioond uud their heels in the ' air, Yer l their idea of a superior power, . tu wiom they talk iu tuU comical nature when they are dispirited or angry, or tired Of ants and snakes, aud longing for 'unknown food. The Dokos seem to come uear&, of all people yet discovered, to that terrible cousin of Immunity tb ape. |