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Updated: May 29, 2025
If there be a becoming likeness, 'tis all that he is accountable for. So that tho' he calls them Men Pygmies, yet he may mean no more by it, than that they were like Men.
Whether or not he possessed the poisoned arrow, which the Pygmies now find so effective, cannot be said, but in all probability he was forced to invent new and more destructive weapons, a necessity that gave fresh exercise to his powers of invention.
And the better to judge of the Reasons that some of the Moderns have given to prove the Being of Men Pygmies, I have laid down as Postulata's, that hereby we must not understand Dwarfs, nor yet a Nation of Men, tho' somewhat of a lesser size and stature than ordinary; but we must observe those two Characteristicks that Homer gives of them, that they are Cubitales and fight Cranes.
It is rare for a woman from the coast to settle in the mountains, still, it occurs frequently enough to alloy the purity of the pygmy race, and in no village have I found more than about 70 per cent. of real pygmies. In the afternoon we came to the chief's dwelling. The old man lived there alone with his wife, quietly and happily, venerated by all the other people.
With the Beaufort and the Raleigh there were five valiant pygmies, and they fired at the shore batteries, and the shore batteries answered like an angry Jove with solid shot, with shell, with grape, and with canister!
The earth looked despoiled, insulted, dissected, as if her sacred inner parts were laid bare by these poor pygmies, the tools of a few capitalists grubbing at her vitals for the clay which meant dollars. In the most desolate part of this desolate country, the car was stopped, and two Syrians laden with heavy grips got on.
You pace back and forth in the wan moonlight, dreaming of that dim life which opens wide and long from the morrow. The width and length oppress you: they crush down your struggling self-consciousness like Titans dealing with Pygmies.
The fields were tenanted with thrashing crews, the men diminished by distance to pygmies, the long belt of the engine flapping and shining like a ribbon in the flaming sunlight. The freight cars on the accommodation train jostled and rocked about and heaved up laterally, till they resembled a long line of awkward, frightened, galloping buffaloes.
If this insolent fellow is more to you than I am, I'll leave this place of ingratitude. In Agrigentum " "It is beautiful in Agrigentum!" interrupted the conjurer, pointing with his finger impressively in the direction of this famous city. "It is delightful there," cried the old woman, "so long as one doesn't meet pygmies like you in the streets."
They also tried to get some news regarding the captive missionaries, but were unsuccessful nor could they learn what had become of Tomba, who had brought the dire news to civilization. "It's too soon to hope for anything yet," said Mr. Anderson. "Wait until we get near the country of the red pygmies." "And then it may be too late," said Tom in a low voice.
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