English Translation

In spite of their warlike abilities, they understand how to protect themselves against wild animals from the large flatmates of these forests. Therefore, they creep into the most remote parts in order to get in contact with other people as little as possible. In my experience, they are quite harmless. They are constantly in search of food, just like the animals of the forest, all they can get is to fill their stomachs. For something else they have no interest. They become dangerous only by making no difference in their hunting campaigns, whether they represent a wild animal or a foreign person. Since they do not disdain their own dead, it is enough that they don't know senti- mental sensations. But by nature evil, by following man out of special axe, they don ́t seem to be. Since I shoot them a lot of meat, especially sea cats, sometimes I give them some tobacco or salt, I hardly have to fear that they will kill me once in my sleep, on the contrary, I consider these pygmies to be unspoilt natural children, which one has to deal with just like children who cannot think far yet, but to whom one can talk well and convince them of this and jewelry and that. I have quite a lot of attachment and, if I may say so, I notice the confidence in them after they had overcome the shyness of the Pygmy white man and realized that he meant well with them. Always on the hunt they are worried about me so that I don't even get into one of their traps or somehow get hurt. When she is in the evening female curiosity, because nothing escapes her eyes. Especially interested are squatting around the campfire and her long whistle goes around, then chat and she always when Juma brings me the food. Food is their most important laugh they are and are full of exuberant cheerfulness, so that one has to admire the harmiosity matter, and even if they have no idea what I am eating, so this little people must again and again. Disputes between one another nevertheless take their whole attention. They go in or between man and woman, I have never observed, all live in good guesses, which I naturally do not understand, but from their gestures easily er- friendship to each other and are tolerable. How enviable are these can guess. Once their excitement is particularly great. Juma puts an open little person who does not seriously have to complain about it, can of Olsardinen in front of me on the table. Still the village beauties do not know where they take the livelihood, whether they punctuate their rent at the end of the month - the silver stuff in this can. But when I can afford to pay a few small fish to see if their tax declarations are correct. They don't need to put and put on my plate, and they see how many people in the can, a telephone or a radio, or any of the many achievements that we are looking for close to the others, the mouths remain open to them, Kuiturmenschen are so proud, they are not worried, they do not think about it until such a lively murmur of words makes room for their astonishment. after what will be tomorrow, and feel completely happy when they are only full. For a hand vole of salt or a pipe of tobacco they are delighted and thanks- After the meal I put on a pipe and sit in my bar. It is the rest of a turret, which one does not with our terms of safari chair in front of the tent. Then the little people retreat again, beg to measure culture and civilization. I already regret these poor as many negro tribes, never do these dwarves. It is therefore also a special person who, in a few decades, continues to enter the inner Africa- joy when I give the men a little tobacco. Immediately a kind of urgent European culture will be subject to and will die out, as already a peace pipe is lit. The tobacco will be in a small ..vessel with hotter so many original people before them. Ash mixed, the smoke first passes a small bottled pumpkin filled with water, into which a pipe over a meter long flows. At this The dress question makes these dwarfs as little headaches as the men sitting in the circle are waving away. During this everything else is sending. A small, hand-sized rag of knocked tree bark hides the women to dance. In the circle they turn around long, with just the necessary, often only a bast knit around the hips, moving to the upper body jerking. Now there are also men who hang between the women a few leaves, mainly because of the ornament. Akwebadu perform jumping movements to the women. Certainly, the dance is supposed to carry some on the hunt with pride a piece of leopard fur around the head, and his wife means imitation from the animal life. On a small drum beats even has a kind of cap. Besides, she has a wide fur strip that she hangs over the one shoulder to carry her child in it. She is just something an old man the tact. The dance is not upsetting, and yet these undemanding dwarfs can enjoy themselves half the night without being tired. For better, their name is Sallabu. This woman is a particularly lively and always become. Some clean-up or a costume, or even just painting, amused human child and very popular throughout the village. Where she is staying, there is joy. At first, the women and girls showed themselves very shy, as is common with most African negro tribes, but I put down their shyness soon after they did not see me suspiciously in the Pygmies for a few days, whereas the men lay down while watching, but then got to know me a little closer. 38 39 And the arrow and bow of dancing won not soon out of the hand.