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Show I:ai;on2JUi;:LS:;" m TII PYGMY Creature Tallen Frcm Zoo IIcnlTey-IIcuse Won't return re-turn to Ccngd Till He Can Go es Missionary. . NEW YORK, March 6.Ota-Benga, the Conco pygmy, who has been Jiving in the Howard Orphan asylum, Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, since he was taken, from the monkey-house in the Bronx zoo last September, Septem-ber, through the efforts of the negro clergymen of New York, refused to go back to the jungle yesterday. Prof. 8. P. emery who brought him to this country and turned him over to , the park authorities until such time as . he should return to Afrioa, started for ! the Congo yesterday with an American exploring expedition. Before he started he called on Ota Benga, and told him he would take him back to Africa if he wished to go. The pygmy, who is learning the English Eng-lish language,' wants to become qualified quali-fied as a missionary before he returns and told Prof. Verner so. The Baptist Ministers' association of New York, it is stated, intends to send Ota to the Virginia seminary in Lynchburg as soon as he gets a good hold on the English Eng-lish language. It is thought it will take about eight years to make a good missionary mis-sionary out of Ota. . |