17 MAY 1890, Page 17

THE AFRICAN PYGMY TRIBE.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j

SIR,—Your article on the pygmy tribes of Africa, in the Spectator of May 10th, confirms the impression left on my mind, after hearing Mr. Stanley's address before the Royal Geographical Society, that he claims the credit of having discovered, or rediscovered after the lapse of centuries, these interesting folk ; whereas they were visited by Mr. Paul Du Chaillu during his second journey to Equatorial Africa in 1864, and their physical characters and general mode of life fully described in his "Journey to Ashangoland," published