| Show I 1 it will wili bi be ex cee difficult tor for us to i jive give our rea readers i by written words an idea ibi 0 of f the appe appearance grap of these strange beings they ara are small even below dwarfishness but their size hiie is their ae least ast impressive characteristic lothare Bo both thare are less than three feet in height athey afi are pig by ahe the approach of a well grown child of four years but they aiese present nino no ap appearance ea rance of i imperfect perfect iri development from either disease 0 or infancy none of these unmistakable evidences of dwarfish dwarfishness nes s awaken the pity ei disgust of the beholder and yet in spite of humane human form ahe he question immediately arises what are rl they Y A elase ei examination ami bation shows that they have attained to ined almost their NII physical d development their teeth their muscles their skin and ad their heir articulations indicates indicate an n a age je beyond thai of mere childhood I 1 th thy they y have bave not the squat figures or the rounded E d forms other eithe of which we are accustomed to seo see in in the dwor dwarf but on the contrary their figures are slight and tall in their proportions light adf supple in their movements the head is not large when compared compard with the body which is is always the cit casein idin childhood and in ih monstrous formations but small compact and sustained by a large well formed I and fully developed neck 1 the chii character acier of both head bead and face are de d e Mia asiatic tic the forehead retreats nearly in in a straight line with the nose but yet the skull has riot not the garib form formation but indicates a brain rain I 1 quite large largely y cevelo in those portions known own to phrenologists i as th the seats of f the per er cestive I 1 organs organ s and those thas of ve veneration the forb formation lation of ofine the head strikingly resembles blee that seen in the statues and bas bali discovered discover edin jn asyria assyria ind and i in ii central america 1 the resemblance of the face to tile the ancient type of western I 1 A asia sin is still feiore more striking krik ing the wide ide mouth ahe large aquiline nose loose with willi peculiar curvature of the point of the cartilage which J is so 6 marked afe a characteristic of the hebrew brew physiognomy and the pointed chin are a all 11 t to 0 b be e found in the statues t a t u s a and n a r murl nu A drawings which have been ej es J st fumed Z f from r in it 14 d st of centuries I 1 in vie 1 ine track desde less deserts se ia of the old oba world andee e impenetrable forests rests of thene the new v I 1 I 1 i there the reflections ot a few mome moments ants en n k s ts I 1 asi iside dethe althe su surmise irmise ahat these creatures rea ture alethe kief fib prodoc product t of ft a freak of nature they are evident 1 ly specimens of a race never hev r yet seeh seen by modern ey eyes e s their faces are bright and cheerful and intel intelligent lijek they them have no language of tl their iper own b bebau aft I 1 1 it i t is maid id 1 of f their early birly tg m ovil from their p place e d disposal dis disposition t ion they them arp an lively and aba docile the ji gi rl hovver however alli weihe mg the pez peculiar aliar willfulness wilfulness wilf wilful ulness libis andu and variability f w which hi ic h a are eje regarded g ardic as chara characteristic e of af her hei sex both bot are remarkably inquisitive and restless andi and pass Ass th their air time lime in running incessantly fitly over th the platform prying into everything they se see e they wilk walk with an une uncertain I 1 ertain as w well ell as rapid galt gait and with their feet wide apart this seems at firma to he the result of a c conscious asci 0 us want of le stability and an I 1 ins instinctive ti enlargement of the 11 be 4 within n w which vich the centre aire of gravity must be kept but an opportunity to observe them the when sitting down and rising s shows 0 ws that there Is s another reson reason for this peculiar use of the lower limbs they sit not after the usual manner by the ibe knees until the ha hams ins touch I 1 thi the floor but by increasing re sing their ardi ordinary nary sepa j ration of the lower limbs and partly bendi bending tig the knees at the same time until they rest upon the inside of the thighs and legs the whole of this extraordinary movement is of catir course rs e made in less time than it will 1 take to read our description of it 1 the children h once fairly aly on the ground ait with legs stretched Aret chad out before them as they have been taught to do but when they risea rise even from this position the extraordinary process of sitting down aown in ia reversed the log leg however is perfectly extended the knee being perceptibly bent even when they stand still now it is is remarkable that som gome of the figures sculptured upon those gigantic ruins in central america sit in the very strange position which these chilgren chi leren ren so I 1 instinctively assume the story atory told wih regard to them seems to be in its essential sen tia i I 1 points the only plau plausible or even probable made joae of accounting for their existence and their presence here it is is said that they are from a city called situated in the remote interior of central america merica i high among mountains never penetrated till within thelast three years by any civilized man who returned to tell the story of his discoveries mr stephens alludes to the existence of this his city in his work on central A merica and expresses an almost irrepressible desire to 0 o visit it he did not make the attempt hv evver gyer ver owing to its natural inaccessibility ability bi lity and its remoteness from the line of travel which he had marked for himself it is stated however eyer that two americans excited thereto by his allus allusion iori to the pla place ce determined to visit it and i in company with i a spanish gentleman succeed e ed d in accompli accomplishing 8 design in spite of tile the attempts of the natives whose duty duly etwas it was tri to put to death every person who approached tile city the passage of the guard which is said to protect the outskirts of the territory was achieved by the terr terror ot the rifle tile inhabitants being ignorant of the use arms 1 the exploring party resided in the city for some time and escaped from it only by the adroit adrai est test management it beino being the law of the place that no n citizen or sti stranger anger sho should be allowed to leave it these children are said to be an inferior I 1 race of priesthood who as the inhabitants of the pity informed the travellers trav ellers q ame am e over aith their ancestors ancestors from Ai assyria syria their si small sa aire are is suppose suppose J to have resulted from centuries of intermarriage the he race havi having ng kept religiously distinct and highly honored al though its office w was as only that of mimes and bacha nals it at the sacred feasts they were or ahans ans in the care of ane adne of the highest priesthood who was persuaded to leave the place with IT the par parly y and who could not consent to aban aba i n do don 6 liis his charge 1 I as s the aary tale told of f he wonderful humin human pair who are now aino amongst angst us marvellous marcellous Marv ellous as aa it is it is not more so sg th than a n the actual appearance of the children themselves ex I 1 I 1 I 1 aji 5 T RIGHT TO thic THE BED one night nigh I 1 a judge a military officer and a priest all appl applied ed for lodging at al an inn inn where there was but one sp aspre r r e ted bed and the landlord wa called on to de eid Which had the better clai claim iid of the three to it I 1 W 1 I 1 1 I 1 hilife have lain fifteen years in the arrison of lofb B r op t gew sat eat vi as judge twenty years at fl said the judie judge t with your leave kave gentlemen I 1 have stood in the ministry twenty aye years in N sai dihe 1 w 1 I 1 i I 1 the did dispute q hnidj aria i the landlord yon mr captain have lain fifteen years you mt R judge q ge have ve pat sat twenty years but ahk tn aged k pastor 1 has as a stood five and twenty years so lie be q certainty taia I 1 hag x the be to tile the bed I 1 |
