Show queer african people stories aro told of the dokos who live among the moist warm bamboo woods to the south of kaffa and ansa in africa only 4 feet high of a dark olive color savage and naked they have no they live only on ants mice and serpents by a few roots and fruits they let their nails grow long like talons the better to dig for ants and the more easily to tear in pieces their favorite snakes the dokos used to be as slaves and they were taken in large numbers the slave huntera used to hold up bright colored clothes as they came to the bamboo woods where these enman monkeys still live and the poor dokos could not resist the attractions offered by anch superior people they crowded round them and taken in thousands in slavery they were docile attached obedient with few wants and excellent health those queer people have one fault a love for ants mice and serpents 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 thoy talk in this comical manner when they are dispirited or angry or tired of ants and shakea and longing for unknown food popular magazine |