Missing Links.

Western Star, Issue 1294, 6 March 1897, Page 1 (Supplement)

Missing Links.

Strange stories are told of the Dokos, who \ive among the moist, warm bamboo woods to the south of Kaffa and Susa, in Africa, Only four feet high, of a dark olive colour, savage and naked, they have neither houses nor temples, neither fire nor human food. They live onlv on anta, mice and serpents, diversified by a few Sots and fruits. They let their nails grow long, like talons, the better to dig for anta, and the in re easily to tear in peices their favourite snakes. The Dokos used to be invaluable as slaves, and they were taken in large numbers. The slave hunters used to hold up bright coloured clothes as they come tS the moist warm bamboo woods, were these human monkeys still live, and the poor Dokos could not resist the attractions oftered by such euperwr people; They crowded round them, and were taken in thousands. These queer people have only one fault -a love lor ants, mice and serpents, and a habit of speaking to Yer with the r heads on the ground and their heels in the airYer is their idea'of a superior power, to whom they talk in this comical manner when they are dispirated or Wgry ,or tired of ants and snakes, and longing for unknown food. The Dokos seem to come nearest of all people yetdiacovered to thatterrible cousin to humanity, the ape.