The following bit of information is from _La Nature_:
Men of a singular race have been discovered in New Guinea, and
the governor, it seems, has promised to send some specimens to
London. Living as they do in the marshes, these men have no
need to walk. On the other hand, the marshes are covered with a
growth that prevents navigation in canoes. The men have built
huts in trees, and as organs of prehension alone are useful to
them, their lower limbs have almost atrophied. These natives
have only feeble and withered legs and feet, while the chest and
arms are of normal development. They can scarcely stand upright,
and they walk like large apes. They thus give the impression
of cripples who have been deprived of the use of their lower
extremities.
(1335)