MR. STANLEY AND THE FOREST DWARFS.

Bush Advocate, Volume V, Issue 354, 16 August 1890, Page 7

MR. STANLEY AND THE FOREST DWARFS.

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THE WORLD." (jtANCUESTBB GUABDIAN.) In his. final communication to tho IncUpemknce'jßelge, Mr. Stanley lays stress upon, the horrors committed by the Arab ivory hunters from Myaugwo. These men, be says, are much worse than the slave-hunter^ because in tho latter case the Arabs have an interest in preserving the lives of the slave?* ■whereas wheu attacking the natives for thefcr store.* of ivory they kill aud burn wholesale. Mr. Stanley will readily deperibe his experiences before the AnU-Sluvery Conference if tho engagements luado fov hira by the King will permit. Regarding tbo fove*t dwarfs, Mr. Stanleystates thiit they ate- the oWoot arihtocracy ia tho world. . lie ivrill pjovo that their race diites back for fifty ceuturits. Thoy.'tra olivecolouifd, and highly intelligent workers i» iron, and their arrows are bcautitully designed. They have v Queeu, a oharmingr little vroniau, who made great friends of the white men. This Queen will bo a strikingfigure iv Stanley*B book. Ho iutended bringing her t& Europe, but s-he fell ill on tho ro&d, and all the other dwr.rfs whom the expedition tried to bring" with them died of fever in the plain* iinmodiately after leaving their forest*. Photographs of thorn, however, have teea brought. Pr. Prtrke adds that tlia dwarf* are a mo& nionil &ud yivtuoua race, tlie ouly monogamous one, probably, ihroaghoufc Africa.