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The monkey said, "Where are you going, Mr. Peach-Darling?" "I'm going to the oni's island to get his treasures." "What have you got good in your package?" "Millet dumplings. Have one?" "Yes, give me one, and I'll go with you," said the monkey. So the monkey ate the dumpling, and boy, dog and monkey all trudged on together. A little further on a pheasant met them and said: "Ohio, Momotarō, doko?"
And he adds: "Thus in the words of a 'History of Creation, in the taste now prevalent, 'in Southern Asia and the East of Africa men live in hordes, mostly climbing trees and eating fruit, unacquainted with fire, and using no weapons but stones and clubs, after the manner of the higher apes. It can be shown," he continues, "that these statements are derived from the writings of a learned scholar of Bonn on the condition of savage nations, the facts of which are based either on the depositions of an African slave of the Doko tribe, a dwarfish people in the south of Shoa, or on the assertions of Bengalese planters, or perhaps on the observations of a sporting adventurer, that a mother and daughter, and at another time a man and woman, were found in India in a semi-animal condition.
It has come to be regarded as the natural and normal law of existence. Of the religion of these hunted pygmies Mr. Stanley tells us nothing, perhaps because there is nothing to tell. But an earlier traveller, Dr. Kraff, says that one of these tribes, by name Doko, had some notion of a Supreme Being, to whom, under the name of Yer, they sometimes addressed prayers in moments of sadness or terror.
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