Pygmies?
pp. 69-70 · Read in the full issue
Who Found Those New Guinea Pygmies?
Letter to the Editor MY husband, the late Mr. Frederick Schmahl, formerly of New Guinea, said to me, when he read the article in the February issue of the “P.1.M.” (in which reference was made to the discovery of a tribe of pygmies in New Guinea, and to statements made by Father Kirsch baum) that he would like to see honour to whom honour is due. I know that he intended to write to you on the matter: but he was very ill, and suffering a lot of pain, and I am afraid that he did not do so.
Since then my husband has passed away and I am writing to you because I noticed in one of his letters to me he said: “I translated Father Kirschbaum’s book at the Land Department in Rabaul, and from the information thus made avail abe to me I am able to say that it was Mr. Eithbach, a planter, who first en countered that tribe of pygmies in New Guinea. Mr. Eithbach had some of these pygmies working for him, and it was he who drew Father Kirschbaum’s attention to the tribe.”
I am, etc.,
A. Schmahl.
Brisbane.
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Loudon, of Port Moresby, with their son lan, returned to Papua by the “Bulolo” at the end of
April. lan Loudon has now got his ‘‘A”
Flying Certificate, but is still too young to sit for his “B” Certificate.
Dr. K. Washington Gray, chief geologist of Australian Petroleum Co., Pty., Ltd., returned to Port Moresby, Papua, by airliner at the end of April, after spending short leave in Australia.