The Lancaster Gazette

Men With Tails.—A French scientific commission has discovered a race of men in Africa, with tails, and no mistake. A report was lately made to the Academy of Sciences thereon. They are one remove from the baboon, scarcely so handsome or human as the ourang-outang, but can talk like negroes. They are terrible savages, and one of their peculiarities is a fondness for raw flesh, especially human flesh. When they are kept as slaves, if not stuffed with raw meat occasionally, they are as dangerous as a beast of prey. The slave traders, on this account, refuse to buy them, as they do not want their stock to eat each other up. The descriptions of them say that the prolongation of the vertebral column give to each individual—male or female—a tail of two or three inches long. They are called Ghilanes, and are rarely more than five feet high: bodies lean and seem weak; arms long and slim: forehead low and receding; ears long and deformed; mouth wide, and furnished with teeth very sharp.