Standing with the light from the lamp shining upon his face, the others seated, he seemed a man among pygmies.

The vigour and spirit of the ministry easily broke through all the machinations of these pygmy rebels, and our armament was quickly such as was likely to make our negotiations effectual.

When the cranes thus begin to flutter, it is time for pygmies to keep their eyes about them.

Defoe had the same power; but in writing Robinson Crusoe, for instance, his task was comparatively easy, since his hero and his adventures were both natural; while Swift gives reality to pygmies, giants, and the most impossible situations, as easily as if he were writing of facts.

His "Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands" (1750) is an interesting event in the romantic revival, for it introduced a new world, of witches, pygmies, fairies, and mediæval kings, for the imagination to play in.

A rival race of pygmies endeavors to secure his services so as to obtain the balance of power.

A curious history is connected with the discovery of the northeastern group of pygmies, a little south of Abyssinia.

Then I saw another trench that ran slantwise up the hillock and it contained more of the pygmies.

A number of these pygmies came out of their trenchI could see them quite plainly, clambering up the steep wall of itand they moved, very slowly it would seem, toward the crosswise trench on ahead a bit.

From these are compounded the four elements, each of which is ruled by elemental spiritsearth by gnomes or pygmies, water by undines or nymphs, air by sylphs, fire by salamanders (cf.

Milton, referring to the wars of the pygmies and the cranes, calls the former That small infantry Warred on by cranes.

We have pygmies and cyclopses, genii and enchanters, fairies and dwarfs, monks and devotees.

From this it would appear that most of the so-called Gaboons must have been in reality Pygmies caught in the inland equatorial forests, for Bosman, who traded among the Gaboons, merely inveighed against their garrulity, their indecision, their gullibility and their fondness for strong drink, while as to their physique he observed: "they are mostly large, robust well shaped men."

He would have liked the pygmies to come and play with him, and he turned to father with a sigh, saying, "They're bully pullers, dranpop.

It was the same in his travels in Morocco, Algeria, Kabylia, among the Touaregs, the Senussis and the pygmies of the Aruwhimi Hinterland.

Come you, then, and rule the England that you love as you may love no woman, and rule me, messire, since I find even in your crueltyFor we are no pygmies, you and I!

For we are no pygmies, you and I."

Bomba, the Jungle boy among the Pygmies; or, Battling with stealthy foes, by Roy Rockwood, pseud, of Harriet S. Adams and Edna C. Squler.

Impassioned pygmies.

Pygmies of Ka-Gor.

Bomba, the Jungle boy among the Pygmies; or, Battling with stealthy foes, by Roy Rockwood, pseud, of Harriet S. Adams and Edna C. Squler.

Impassioned pygmies.

Pygmies of Ka-Gor.

These dwarfed the fast-gathering group that stood peering up at them, like pygmies under the pinions of the fabled roc in Sinbad the Sailor's story.

PYGMIES, a fabulous people, their height 13½ inches, mentioned by Homer as dwelling on the shores of the ocean and attacked by cranes in spring-time, the theme of numerous stories.