The story of Africa and its explorers . f the Doko, a race of dwarfs livingamong the Gallas. In 1854 tales of the Akkas,several of whom have at different times been THE WAMBUTTI PIGMIES. 35 brought to Europe (pp. 36, 37), reached Peth-erick, and in 1871 they were described by as the inhabitants of Monbuttu,a country which is south of the Bahr-el-Ghazel and west of the Equatorial Provinceto which Mr. Stanley was hastening when hemet with a similar race in the depths of theUpper Congo forests. This race he calls the Wambutti. They livefarther west than the Akkas, but in disposi-
The story of Africa and its explorers . f the Doko, a race of dwarfs livingamong the Gallas. In 1854 tales of the Akkas,several of whom have at different times been THE WAMBUTTI PIGMIES. 35 brought to Europe (pp. 36, 37), reached Peth-erick, and in 1871 they were described by as the inhabitants of Monbuttu,a country which is south of the Bahr-el-Ghazel and west of the Equatorial Provinceto which Mr. Stanley was hastening when hemet with a similar race in the depths of theUpper Congo forests. This race he calls the Wambutti. They livefarther west than the Akkas, but in disposi- third is a species of StrycJ/mos (a notoriouslypoisonous genus), and a fourth is Tephronia,the seeds of which are used to poison fishes.^These Wambutti have no fixed abodes and,if they build shelters at all, only constructhuts of branches, with scarcely more archi-tectural skill than the lowest of wild explorers could, of course, obtain littleinformation regarding their ways of life andmodes of thought. They affirm, however,. MAP OF THE ROUTE OF THE EMIN PASHA RELIEF EXPEDITION. tion and general characteristics do not differwidely from that better-known people. Theyare brownish in colour, not exceeding four feetfour inches in height, nomadic in their habits,neither keeping cattle nor tilling the ground,but subsisting solely by hunting and snaringwild animals or collecting the wild fruits andberries near their retreats. Their weaponsare primitive but efficient, consisting of bowsand arrows, the latter usually poisoned, notwith the dried bodies of ants as at firstimagined, but with the juice of various speciesof plants—one of which is apparently thewell-known sassy bark (). Another is Palisota harteri, a that the dwarfs have no government and nocommunities, but wander about in hordeseach consisting of a few families, the necessityfor finding food compelling them to be con-tinually moving their habitations from onepart of the country to another
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