In Search of an Unknown Race — page 84: what you’re looking at

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74 VAN. and women whom he had thought of as part of his delirium. And as little by little the mists cleared away from his mind, Van called up certain things he had readin books of travel regarding races of small people which have been mentioned by various explorers. As, for example, the inhabitants of the Andaman Islands, whose stature seldom exceeds four feet five, while the average is but little over four feet; and the pigmy people known to exist in the far interior of Cen- tral Africa, as also another distinct race in the unex- plored regions of India. So as he watched the movements of those under his own observation. Van’s first bewilderment gave place to asort of languid interest, particularly as he noticed that both males and females, as well as the tiny chil- dren playing about the grass, had pleasant, regular feat- ures, not unlike those of the true creole with jetty black hair and eyes. Instinctively, as the motion of his hammock sud- denly ceased, he turned his eyes inward. And as they fell upon the motive power which had been swinging his hammock, he laughed outright. A large white monkey, of the Albino tribe peculiar to Brazil, was squatted on the cane flooring of the hut, holding one end of a cord attached to Van’s hammock between its paws. Overcome by the warmth, Jocko had dropped into a short drowse, and was nodding like a Chinese mandarin. Suddenly a newcomer appeared—whether woman or young girl Van could not at first determine. She was not more than four feet high, but admirably propor: (ORME OOKS, (EC)