travels through to pigmy tribes the Mam-buri around Lake Albert Nyaniza in the Belgian Congo, who are believed to be shortest in stature of all the Aftican natives, averaging only four fect in height, are related by Dr. Leonard John' Vandenbergh, member of the California Academy of Science and an anthropologist. Dr, Vandenberg returned to America recently after almost a year in the Uganda and British East Africa as the head of an expedition financed by the Famous Players. Lasky Corporation. He was accompanied by Dr. George Burbank Shattuck, formerly Professor of Geology ' ut Vassar College and Johns Hopkins University.
Interesting stories of the characteristics of the Mambuti pigmies, who, Dr. Vandenbergh asserted, had never before been visited by a white man, were brought back by him and told to newspapermen in the scientist's room at tha Hotel Commodore, Considering their habitation in the heart of the thick Congo, the Mambuti, said Dr. Vandenbergh, have attained comparative civilization. They are
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