. Elementary physical geography;. o- classes—onehaving a light brown skin, the other being almost black. The existence of pygmy tribes is mentioned by Herodotus, PomponiusMela, Aristotle and others, but as recently as thirty years ago it wasbelieved that the accounts of them were mythical. In 1865 the famousAfrican traveller, Paul Du Chaillu, discovered the Obongo tribe. Hisaccounts were flatly con-tradicted in Europe, buta few years later theywere confirmed by Peredes Avanchers, an Abys-sinian missionary. In1871, another tribe, theAkka, were discoveredby Dr. Schweinfurth. Of the variouspygmy
. Elementary physical geography;. o- classes—onehaving a light brown skin, the other being almost black. The existence of pygmy tribes is mentioned by Herodotus, PomponiusMela, Aristotle and others, but as recently as thirty years ago it wasbelieved that the accounts of them were mythical. In 1865 the famousAfrican traveller, Paul Du Chaillu, discovered the Obongo tribe. Hisaccounts were flatly con-tradicted in Europe, buta few years later theywere confirmed by Peredes Avanchers, an Abys-sinian missionary. In1871, another tribe, theAkka, were discoveredby Dr. Schweinfurth. Of the variouspygmy tribes thebest known are theAkka, Wambutti,and Batua of Cen-tral Africa, and theBushmen of thesouthern part. Pyg-mies are character-ized by a mattedgrowth of reddish-brown hair upon thebodies, prognathicjaws and retreating-foreheads. The av-erage stature of the Bushmen is about five feet; that of theother tribes, about four and one-half feet. The Akka arecharacterized by misshapen bodies, long, skinny fingers,and withered YELLOW TYPE: JAPANESE 344 PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY Nearly all the pygmy tribes have learned the use of fire,but, as a rule, they eat their food raw. Although theyhave a very low place in the human scale, they display con-siderable intelligence. The Wambutti are ingenious indevising nets and traps for securing game, and they seemcapable of a low form of civilization. The pygmies are rarely at war either with the otherAfrican tribes or with one another. As a rule, they areprotected by the tribes. The Obongo pygmies declarethemselves to be related to the monkeys. The Negroidsof Australia and the Philippine Islands, and the Hottentotsof Africa are notably undersized in physical have been classed as pygmies, but they have no rela-tion to the African pygmies. Antiquity of Man.—The written history of man, in-cluding that which has been recorded on tablets and monu-ments, extends backward only a few thousand years. Thepart of this period recorded
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