STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1453, sig. 109-4/1207 (damaged)

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Pygmy group ... soon curious people will find themselves in front of the tent As I once said of Akwebadu, this is quite ugly to fill such a stomach. If they did not torment hunger, they might not be able to express the beauty of the majority of his tribesmen. Always all day not out of her primitive huts, at the most that she disturbs herself again the far too large, flat nose with the extended nostrils, the fever squat. Only occasionally they pick themselves up to one of her dances. besides the beady lips. If these facial parts were not so repulsive, they are quite amazingly resistant. Diseases, apart from some of them, might even look pretty, because they have been injured, I have never observed. One has to bear in mind that in almost all relatively beautiful dark, almost languishing eyes, one of these dark forests has an eternally wet, humid climate, because the sun is quite brighter skin colour, substantially brighter than my waganda. At the same time, it does not penetrate through the foliage of the huge trees. If another person, me now that I have gathered the whole village and can make comparisons, also a native, would sleep year after year in the little sheltered huts on the that, despite the blood kinship among themselves, they would nevertheless be quite different, wet ground, he would probably be in danger after a short time. Not all of them have the broad nose and the bulging lips, whether they can no longer stir any more, but with the pygmies there seems to be other blood in between, I can't find out of course, nor can even the very old people not know these complaints. While especially among the older men the broad nose- I see a fever sufferer or people who cough. Cough and chest pain falls, for some still a sparse, in no way more appropriate to the ornaments, especially with planters comes one of the most common appearances as a result of goat beard, among the young men and women also colds are found. No question, these little dwarfs have an iron nature, and ter, in which nose and mouth are in normal conditions. Thus, they do not know any claims to life. Her huts, for example, are not at all the impression of a mambutidame in Akwebadus's wife, only branches stuck in the ground and tied up above, which cover their size with leaves. The Mănner have become complete despite their smallness. At the front is the Eingongsloch, only on all fours can I develop into such a hut normally, they are inferior, have a wide chest and wide school crawl in. Inside they are dark and damp, a moth need the terns, the muskein are very well developed, and some of them don't directly make dwarfs. Not even a little grass they consider necessary as a backing, the impression of wrestling natures. Most older men have hate- the bare ground is perfectly sufficient. Just as undemanding as in regard to lichen scars on the body, which they have contracted on their hunting trains. their domesticity, they are also in relation to food. Like the animals of their One little guy, the leopard has torn the face and chest badly. Above-round they live from what the forest offers them. Among them are berries this goes to the sick person, who had broken a gorilla's thigh, and fruits, herbs, grasses, roots, wild honey, but also caterpillars, sausages are much better. Of course it is still fixed, but I worry about mer, bugs, ants, snails, maggots, snakes and lizards and, as far as I am no longer convinced, that his people can have him in their way, of course meat. The preferred is monkey meat. Farming will be better or at least faster. or any similar culture is completely unthinkable to these dwarfs, it After I get to know these Pygmies better with each day, also does not fit to their nomad existence, because they are constantly on the hunt I judge them already quite differently, as I did biasedly. First or in search of new hunting grounds. If a larger animal is killed, it must be taken into account that it still has remains of natives or in one of their pits, then it is eaten until it is known of no culture and its only interest is that it is simply no longer possible. Everyone then runs with thick, driven bellies 34 35