Show Race of Pygmies Eats Bugs and Only Seven Sounds In Language of People Cousin to Monkey r u chieftain of the ilia O Il ba of pygmies In Africa J Isn't sure jut just how I ow many wives es es lio ho huts lias but the number rum well over onT 10 Hn ItA Is shown here rc enter center wit h 11 IL few Cew of or them some somo being little girl or of 13 12 and nn l 11 It years fears old Several Se other oilier wives wins are arc out hunting roe roo roots is 18 for Cor his Ills royal dinner Ha Mc has lias children I I nr Rv NUA CAPE TOWN Dec John 10 10 John Bull BullIs Bullis Bu I Is about to Adopt adopt n L a new baby or orho orho c r ho will If it the baby can baby can be bo caught caugh c tamed and Impressed with the Ide i that its new daddy rt really ally means mear well and Is anxious lo to see It grow grov This probable addition to lo the tho po- po polyglot polyglot family now under British Brills protection Is la the race of at II Bushmen most primitive and tim tim tim- timid timId Id people In the worM world Untold centuries ago these nor no nomadic madic pygmies probably formed the largest or of o African tribes Now No Nothey they are aro BO so few that science clence had hadI ha pronounced them extinct until IL a a party of at o American explorers die dis- discovered covered a a few remnants of the lost loa race raca In the Kalahari I desert A semi official relief party under Harold I I arold Eede British explorer Is headed Into the waste lands ot of north bent on rescuing all the bushmen who will 1 consent to bo be rescued and also to obtain for tor science sl enco ence a further record of ot the old old- oldest old ohl est cst of ot African tribes TO OFFER OFFEn Armed with suh white while magic as sugar tobacco matches and n a phonograph EBe Eedes des hopes to win the he friendship ot of tho the pygmies and lead them to n a reservation atlon where when they no longer will trill fear starvation and the spears of ot their neighbors Proof that the tho people of ot the thi Kalahari still lived came when the th Denver African expedition a party parl y of at o Americans under Dr C E Ca Ca- Ca Cadie C i- i die dlo anthropologist of ot Denver uni- uni university returned to Caps Cape Town nt- nt after ter seven months In the Interior They brought The They brought out out nearly 1000 feet of moving picture film show show- showing ing that the bushman Is a 1 first cousin of at the tho missing link Weeks were spent silent In lit gaining the tl confidence ot of o the Each night offerings ot of sugar and ond an tobacco were placed In places placeD along alone the trails an and anil e each ch lime time they disappeared as ILS It if by magic l finally one ventured to re- re remain r main min an and and eat and then went back bac k to his people Tho The next few days das s brought every member of at the van van- vang var race less race less than OO of at them gori to to live oft off the tho bounty of the e Americans who In turn studied studio and photographed them Dr Cradle on his return to Cape Town pronounced the bush busl- bush bush- bushmen men men the lowest living anthrop logical type Not only onh in physical physic formation but In lack of at o culture the pygmy Is thousands of years behind th the tho most backward ot of other tribes This was corroborated by b Dr A tt J It H Goodwin gist of at o the of ot Cape CapeTown Cip e Town who accompanied the Den Den- Denver Denver ver expedition The bushman Dr D Goodwin says has hILs no religion almost no racial tradition no sort gor of or organization and scarcely auy an language A tiny old man driven by the threats or of the younger younge tribesmen who would not risk their Own lives Ives appear In n camp LANGUAGE It 7 1 SOUNDS No white man In the world can understand nd tho Bushman Dushman language s- s but two guides of the tho ex ex- ex expedition could understand a few Cew words TheY that the tho visitor tor was seas Kann Kanna Ianna 1 the Ancient He didn't know how old he was but claimed calmed to have havo taken active part partIn partIn In great tribal wars known to have been fought more than a century ago Kanna Ianna assured of their friend friend- friendship ship was wu loaded Ui up u with gifts girts and sent rack ack ack to the tribe Speech Is made mado up of at seven basic sounds the variations In tone e pressing more than the wor words s themselves Even the chimpanzee has nine nino distinct throat sounds TRAVEL IX IN They wander neither In tribes tribe nor families but In IndiscrimInate o ate bunches A bow boVi and arrow anD loin skin ar arb arc all the Individual pos pos pos- tresses ceases They have ha not permanence enough to build themselves tl it shelter The evidence brought out by the tho thi Denver party aroused 1 thoI lan Ian and Interest to such I an extent that tho the British foreign secretary authorized the tho relief mea Inca sores ure that now v aro ero being carried out out The Tho The bU n are aro a people whose only aim in life Ufa from birth to death Is to obtain n nourish nourish- nourishment nourishment nourishment ment Doctor Goodwin says says- TheY devour mice lizards ant eggs snakes and flying ante ants The wont wom- women women en dig tor for roots and the mt men n tol- tol follow tollow tollow low the lions In the tho hope of at rob rob- robbing bing tho the Jackals and vultures of the remains of at tho the kills Cold Col l nights find nil alt sexes flexes and d ages huddled together for tor warmth And on tho the hottest drys It ft their hunger has hail en satisfied theY y will dig Into the sand and lie all allday aday day clay long with only their faces ex- ex exposed ex posed LIFE 01 or 01 LEISURE Whatever Iho tho bushman may be bhe he Is la not coward cowardly I For or untold centuries over central Africa he carried on war with his moro more pow pow- powerful r- r erful neighbors with but one pos 1108 po i- i sible result his result his own defeat Beat Doat- Beaten en and hunted like an animal he ie tied fled Into German Southwest Africa ca there to be hI massacred by the white men men- men and D Bantu Bantu tribes So he ie was driven en Into Info the tho Kalahari des des des- desert i- i ort ert to 10 and die die and very nearly diLl did dl j Perhaps n a a few v more mom months will see the pygmies established In tome some safe safo haven where they can hunt and feast and dance to the monotonous hand-clapping hand of ot their the multitudinous wives wives |