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Cake Walk First in Africa.Chicago Dlapatcb to *« Nev Tork World JProf. l?'rederick Starr, o£ the University of Chicago, -who has Just returned from pygmy land, on the Upper Congo, says: One thing I discovered was that the * cake walk* did not originate In America, hut on the Congo The wild natives have the cake walk festivities—all but the cake. The gyrations and movements ^re almost the same as a genuine cake walk in this country.A traveler who attends to his own business can explore the country without fear. Though there are cannibals, they eat only one another In their tribal ware: they seldom eat a missionary ora white man.The pygmies are three and a half to four and a half feet high. They live along the sources of the large rivers in th*_ upland- They -subsist chiefly by hunting.
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Washington Post
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Tue, Jan 08, 1907
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