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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ike ani-mals, without habitations, without sacredtrees, etc. They go naked, nourishingthemselves by roots, fruit, mice, ser-pents, ants, honey; they climb treeslike monkeys. Without chief, withoutlaw, without arms, without marriage,they have no family and mate by chance,like animals ; they also multiply rapidly.The mother, after a short lactation, aban-dons her child to itself. They neitherhunt nor cultivate nor sow, and theynever have known the use of fire. Itis needless to inform the reader that theactual observations of Stanley and hiscompanions do not confirm this over-drawn picture of the absolute savagismof the dwarfs. The explorer discovered villages ofthe little folk, and considerable districtsof country occupied by them. In per-son the men are about Stanleys ac- frmr fret in heiVht and countofthePygioui reel in ncigm, aim mies. the giant the women are not nearly Madis-so tall. Stanley has given, in ChapterXXII of his second volume, detailedmeasurements from which the form and
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662 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. proportions of the pygmies may be de-termined. They are clearly Nigritianin character, lacking nothing of thosequalities which belong to the race, un-less Ave should except the lighter com-plexion of the dwarfs. There was alsoa noticeable difference in their personalmanners and in the general customs ofthe race. The dwarfs seemed to theEuropeans to be more lively, active,energetic, and of a certainty fully as in-tellectual as the average of the nativeraces. Another conspicuous variation fromthe common type discovered by the great adventurer was the rather gigantic Madisof Emin Pashas country. The menof this tribe had a greater stature thanany others with whom either Living-stone or Stanley came into contact.Exact measurements of the Madis arenot presented ; but the frequent men-tion made of their towering above theirsmaller companions leaves the impres-sion upon the reader that the Madis,though not true giants of the old pro-digious proportions, or even of

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