Show 1 1 oK r r It g v f fI ft Iti 1 Af f W t f t ir Ir l Jj t I t. t J. J i ji t I f t j f. f f y 1 i I f rd I 1 1 I. I t J p J r Y i I 1 f S J t i I o ii y- y 4 t J Ji ft 1 il O 1 1 J i t I t i I f. f f d n f N R J r B d 1 e oun ace w 4 11 1 t oc G ATHLETES ATHLETES' ATHLE TE S I 1 z L aY London Explorer Just Home om oma s e From Prom Africa a Tells q o off r a Finding g Nation Like Th That t Met by Gulliver r on His Travels Who Perform Amazing mazy n 1 k I f f Athletic Feats With Ease Also Pygmies i I u p AI Who Live in Treetops an and r c cr C i t EY r r Children the e Size o of Dolls L I Ir 1 tt I f i By H. H C. C Norris NorrisA A A NEWLY discovered nation of 01 t. t African athletes s more than PV I seven even feet fed tall tali descendants of the I ancient Pharaohs and breakers by a good eleven inches o of the worlds world's i r. r record high jump A race of yellow pygmies less than four feet high who hide in forests t I i. i f to so 0 dense that they never sec se see the sun j carry in their arms children the size 1 of dolls run up trees like cats and r. r constitute the wildest specimens of oj r humanity in existence L The Human Luman Leopards a ferocious secret society metal claws and leopard skins who steal their victims at night Tribes who send Bend messages for miles I by beating their chests with their bare barB 1 hands hands Y oJ f London THESE are some Bome of ot the marvels found t j t In the middle of the Dark Co Continent I I. I by William J. J W. W Fellow of the Ii Royal Geographical Society Mr o i f h recently returned to London ondon from his if tenth trip across Africa has in in the last I ten years penetrated that mysterious land from top to bottom and from side to ride Bide as East and Central African secretary secretary secre serve a tary tart of the British and Foreign n Bible i Society He has trave traversed sed Africa five I times from Cairo to Cape Town He has traversed Africa five times from the East Coast to the West He He has i T journeyed African miles b by motorcar motor motor- J car train boat bicycle and on foot He has made his way into jungles and among tribes which no white man had ever ever seen before And in doing it he has also done done what no man of any any 1 r fl color has hasHe ever done I He has gone absolutely unarmed Al Al- l- l 1 ways A J 1 L f N r J Jt t A young girl oa w rM 9 R of the Banza H q r tribe Congo g n. n S I yR Y r f v P i w a f. f za t f i 4 r i Vf ir y J I fi x Y c F t t t L f r j ik w e r Y n Y N r nI r y a u 5 4 y yV y V x V 4 I f- f F v If 5 a cri 7 A 1 tt f. f L r I 1 x t. t w f t i i aA i i I 4 a y 1 3 rr a. a t ti I- I x it t. t i 1 r w. w if f. f 7 f y x kJ To please Mr King l nga monarch over a race of gigantic gigantic athletes athletes directed some of his warriors to try the high jump The bar was set at 6 feet 6 inches and one of them i I. I 0 r cleared it apparently y by a foot Each man manmade mant t made the the leap eap without the slightest exertion u H 4 j 1 I. I 4 f 11 t If t tf f r J f. f F 4 L t f N hi u t F y c. c t William J. J W. W despite his wide wanderings wanderings wander wander- w ings about Africa Africa he he has only recently returned from his tenth trip across the continent and is is here shown shO with two of his native boys after a 2000 I I c mile tramp tramp looks looks much more the student than I the intrepid explorer he is I It was the most unassuming g even the tho most diffident of men who sat in an office of the Bible House on Queen Victoria street in London and told about the people people people peo peo- and things he had encountered Roundabout were glass cases containing the British h Bible Society's s priceless collection collection collection col col- lection of antique copies copies' of the Scrip Scrip- tures Even amid the visible trophies of his travels Mr looked less like an explorer and adventurer than any anyone anyone anyone one you ever met He looked gentle kindly a aged man With pleasant blue eyes and brown hair turning gray Y His voice was wa quiet and aud cordial but while he talked his forehead wrinkled now and then as if if he were were actually afraid raid that what he had to tell might not riot prove entertaining I Take all the adventure books of the world add a dash of the Arabian Ar bian Nights with a a ado do double ble handful of magic and read them by the e elight light of Ala Aladdin's dins lamp Then you'll gain g in some idea of the astounding things seen and experienced by this man whose homis home hom is in Belfast Ireland Africa said Mr with his quiet smile smile and and the very word seemed oddly alien in that place and from those diffident lips lips is is the wonder place aswell as well as the treasure house of the world It has possibilities as well as regions which we so far do not even suspect Good natured and grateful normally the Africans African's contribution to the human race will in my opinion be on the practical rather than the artistic side It is he who will serve humanity by hewing out and digging out the treasures of that rich continent in aid of commerce commerce White men cannot do more than direct such work They cannot do the work themselves themselves them them- selves for only an African is able to stand the climate Sur Surely ly the rolo role of I J K Z r Nb f t. r 7 NS 3 yi J i iJ it t x f fh fx x h t y qty t During his trip Mr l encountered a tribe of true dwarfs living in the depths of dark forests shy as wild beasts and as much at home in the trees as a ca cat In the etching th the relative relative size of these dwarfs is shown in comparison with a native orthe of or the ordinary size worker of server is not one to be despised desPIsed despised de de- when the work ork and service service will benefit all the rest of humanity The natives vary remarkably in physique and intelligence Going unarmed unarmed un un- armed as I do perhaps I see them at their best in any case at their most natural My rule is never never to bully a wildman wildman wild wildman man or a wild animal Just smile Just smile and pass on More than once I have passed a lion or a leopard within forty paces yet vet I t have merely been stared at and not harmed More than once oh many times times times-I I have had cannibals as my hosts and as soon as they were of convinced-of my friendly intentions I have nave never had any ny trouble One of my porters however making making a return journey alone alo e was killed and eaten Sometimes of course the innocent suffer for the mistakes of the guilty A lion liori will remember an in injury injury injury in- in jury for about t three wee weeks s. s If you happen happen happen hap hap- pen to meet him within that time he e may ay have a fa faulty memory for the f features of his original assailant and vent his annoyance annoyance annoyance an an- by attacking you Remarkably enough the two extremes extremes ex ex- of African intelligence are found in the two extremes of Cf physique The seven-foot seven men who whom I met were good natured well advanced in primitive civilization civilization civili civili- and very intelligent indeed The Tho pygmies the men less than four feet talland tall talland talland and the women about three e feet fe t nine inches are little more more than animals In Ina a general way their intelligence is exceedingly exceedingly exceedingly ex ex- low but in their own w way y they are exceedingly clever lilt It is the Kingdom of near Uganda Uganda the the latter a known better-known district dis dis- which which contains th the caste casto which averages seven feet in iq height They are aret t the e ruling c caste ste of the country and their 01 old oid 1 monarch King is still a magnificent specimen Though he walks with a stoop now du due to old age he is still six feet eight inches tall taU He must formerly have b been en at least six feet ten Many of his nobles are well are well over seven feet and extremely athletic t THOUGH HOUGH the kind kindom om is remote from 1 the touch of civilization these giants have a dress differing remarkably rema-kably from that of most natives They wear weal a along along along long white robe like the Roman toga tog often strikingly decorated l wh who rules more than people of whom wl about 10 per cent are in the giant class is a real leal King every inch of him He has a profile exa exactly like that of Seti I the Egyptian monarch whose mummy is in the Museum at Cairo I Iwas Iwas Iwas was studying this mummy a few weeks ago comparing it with The features of the the the native name nam of the ca caste te of giants giants are are Egyptian rather thun thin Negroid and arid their skin in instead instead instead in- in stead of being black is a reddish brown bown or bronze much anuth mu h like that of the Egyptians in ancient times Some o of f their art too bears striking similarities to ancient Egyptian art It Itis is my belief b lief that the are from some ancient dynasty of the As to what accounts for the tremendous tremendous tre tre- tre height of the I think it itis itis itis is not due to any herb or other food but butto butto butto to life in in the open They are very active very athletic and outdoors most of the time in an open stretch of country Can you imagine athletes seven feet and morein morein more morein in in height Can you imagine what would happen to our Olympic Games records if these chaps took part To please me King had some of his young warriors try the high jump I thought the worlds world's record was six feet six inches I find that E. E Beeson the American holds the worlds world's record at six feet seven and sixteenths five-sixteenths inches though H. H M. M Osborne of Illinois is credited with jumping six feet eight an and ami sixteenths five inches King fixed the bar barj under my direction at at six feet six inches and s several veral warriors easily jumped over it One of them cleared it by what seemed at least a foot NEXT EXT io to the gia giant t athletes whose physique and strength are utterly incomprehensible unless you have seen them the people of greatest interest are the pygmies You can find no human beings any ny lower Jower in the intellectual intellect al scale I am speaking of the true pygmies not of the pygmies pseudo-pygmies considerably taller who are found nearer to tion Those whom I studied are the forest pygmies or They live in a dense belt of forest 1000 miles long by perhaps wide and I first came upon them at about the point where the explorer Henry Stanley was almost lost Previously I had several times traveled this forest without seeing seeing seeing see see- ing one of them They are shy as rabbits and the little fellow who fled past me one dawn looked not much bigger A bit farther on or from this point we came to a sort of tunnel through the bush It wasn't over three feet high and it led for half a mile to a river On the bank we we found tiny footprints and followed fol oWEd them to an encampment ter of a mile in size where we found about fifty people Their encampments are right in the heart of f the forest and since the thick growth hides the sun sunt ocher color instead instead instead in in in- the t e pygmy is almost stead of black He is a wild little little- thing always on the move from place to place the wildest human species in the world today Hiding behind trees rees looking down from lofty limbs these strange creatures peer peer at you like small animals You catch a glimpse of bright suspicious ious eyes eyes and and usually the watcher is gone silently and with lightning speed before you can speak to tp him When I made my way to the encamp encamp- I 2 j ment of fifty fifty people the pygmies hid at but some of them though still and nervous slowly came out again stared They are nasty little fellows when hostile strong as any Negro of ordinary size and adept with their tiny bows and arrows The arrows are poisoned and nd many a traveler through that country has been killed kille by a poisoned POIsoned poisoned poi POI- dart without ever seel seeing g his as as- as They gave a tribal dance for me one feature of which was th the the beating of their hairy chests with their hands hailds By telegraph messages for forlong forlong forlong this means they long distances The wo women n with it their babies looked like little girls with dolls the men in cloth bark skirts wi with their heir monkey faces and hairy chests looked like lie gnomes Shooting with the bow and arrow and tree climbing are the things at skill which the pygmies s' s show most Their skill in these accomplishments is really amazing of white two-inch two piece cc T SET up a I paper on a tree at a distance of f fifty yards They hit it easily with their the of them hitting little arrows many paper right in th the center T Then en I selected se- se s se selected about bout eighteen inches in m a tree diameter and ab about ut fifty f feet et to the first branches When I indicated the tree that I wanted them to climb they ran up the trunk like cats using their fingers and toenails and hardly using their knees at all ait When they reached that branch fifty feet from the ground they ran ran along it as quickly and unconcernedly ly lyas Half as we might run along a pavement their life is spent in the tree branches and the other half under them By saying that the pygmies trade by signs I do not of course mean that they have no language This is the great trouble with Africa Africa it it it has too many languages Often I have had to change porters every ten or twenty miles because the ones I started with did not know the language of the next dis dis- dis- dis The up mix-up of dialects numbering numbering numbering number number- ing ac according to different authorities anywhere from to is the thing most discouraging ging to the traveler Still there are other things which might be expected to discourage Secret societies for example Africa has its fraternities just like civilization but the savage fraternities are things things' of doom a and d terror i Of all the dreadful secret fraternities the one called the Human Leopards is by far the most appalling It is well named One night when I was traveling just north of the Equator said Mr I decided to sleep on the veranda of my hut but instead of inside It was very hot and the interior of of the hut but was like a furnace furna e. e Hardly had I prepared however for a night on the veranda when some natives hurried over over overto to me and explained that it would be extremely dangerous to sleep there They pointed out that their own huts huts' were strongly barricaded and that mine must be barricaded barricaded barricaded bar bar- in the same manner I didn't understand just what they meant but butI I did understand their evident alarm so soI soI soI I spent the night in the barricaded furnace I Next d day y I learned that the terror was inspired by th the Human Leopards Its members arm themselves with steel claws and wear This district district district dis dis- dis- dis was being raided by the terrible secret society which had seized more than forty of the natives and carried them off into the bush for its its- atrocious rites Some curious methods of telegraphing telegraph ing messages were noted by Mr during his journeys The pygmies mies roles use the beating be uz of their chests to to keep in touch With wit one 1 nether mother D ther while hunting Bunting Their method M. M as asit asit asit it happens is to wound a I It h.- h. c animal mal maland and then pursue it till it fa falls Is of ex ex- Another telegraph system used by various tribes is the beat of the pele drum Under favorable conditions conditions' the theloise noise loise can be heard ten miles Once when Mr Ir was searching for a certain certain certain tain tain native a message to the man was tapped out by drum Somebody hearIng hearing hearing hear hear- hear hear- ing it hunted up the man and delivered the message It had taken only two hours to locate him y bv Ps |