Gunnison Valley News | 1919-09-12 | Page 2 | African Pigmies

t African Pigmies. The historian Herodotus, 2500 ynr ego, described the African pigmie which he located near the source of the Nile. Herodotus, for once, told the truth, for It Is In that region that modern explorers have found them. Stanlej described them as having lingo stomachs and short legs, and as "leaping "leap-ing about like grasshoppers." Gup specimen he saw was a f till grown young woman, three Inches Mhort of three feet in height, but "perfectly formed and of a glistening sleekness cf body, w,':.h absurdly laie eyes."