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Show eirange stories are told of the Ooso ' who live among the moist, -warm bamboo bam-boo -woods to the south of Kaff a and Busa in Africa. Only 4 feet high, of a dark olive color, savage and naked, they have no fire. They live only on ants, mice and 6erpents, diversified by a few roots and fruits. They let their nail grow long, like taions, the better to dig j for ants and the more easily to tear in pieces their favorite snakes. The Dokoa used to be invaluable as slaves, and they were taken in large numbers. The slave hunters used to hold up bright colored clothes as they came to the bamboo woods, -where these human monkeys still live, and the poor Dokos could not re-fist re-fist the attractions offerod by such superior su-perior people. They crowded round them and -were taken in thousands. In ! flavery they were docile, attached, obedient, with few wants and excellent health. These queer people have one fault a love for ants, mice and serpents ser-pents and a speaking to Yer with their heads on the ground and their heels in the air. Yer is their idea of a superior power, to whom they talk in this comical com-ical manrjcr when they are dispirited or angry or ired of ants and snakes and longing lor unknown food. Popular aaagii L |