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Show A NEW RACE OF PYGMIES. A new race of pygmies hitherto un-known un-known has just been discovered in ! the Trench Congo The little folL are said never to surpass 1 ." me'ers, abOUt 1 feet 9 inches in hcicht Thev live entirely isolated in the territory of Mongimba. They hnild huts of hemispheric al shape in the forest in groups of trom five to thirty. The chief is an old man who exercises exer-cises absolute and hereditarv aut'mrltv and elects his own successor They follow a curious custom as to food, the women subsisting o" edible, roots, while the men live on the pro-1 ' ducts of the chase. According to a 1 legend among them, the former are ! descended from n hedgehog and the I latter from a toad They have various notions of good and evil and thev have a certain cult of the dead, whom they btirv with much pietv Thev are valiant in the defense of their liberty and indepen dence |