120 THE LILIPUTIANS. actly like the heads which are repre- sented in the images dug out of the ground in Mexico and Central America, and which must have been carved at a very early day. They have no forehead, worth speaking of, while the face is very formidable. In other respects they are well formed. All the organs of the body are perfect. They are taught to do a great many things, which, consid- ering their size, are laughable enough. The girl is altogether one of the small- est little human beings, for one of her. age, that I ever saw, or in fact, that I ever heard of, except in such stories as