by: Rick Johnson 
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85717
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Burroughs described the D’don of pal-ul-Don as “pithicantropi” then described them as intelligent, literate, metal and stone workers and attractive enough to gain attention in any European nation.
Since Pithicantropus had a brow that barely passed above his eyes and barely had the capability to make stone tools, it is clear that Burroughs was mistaken in this regard. This isn’t strange as by the time Greystoke visited Pal-ul-Don, anthropology was still in it’s infancy and the family tree was not only devoid of leaves, but those fossils we possessed were fragmentary so mistakes were common.
The reality is that the D’Don probably evolved from North African Homo Sapiens, possibly from Sudan or Egypt(?) then became isolated in Pal-ul-Don where an arboreal mutation occurred. The small population within that land caused this mutation to spread and increase to produce the first Don which probably branched off into the Tor-o-don and the Don. The Don then probably branched into the Ho-Don and Waz-Don with their common ancestor becoming extinct.
The description of the Waz-Don as having straight hair implies that they were descended from the original Don and not from Sub-Saharan negroids though it will be interesting to see what inbreeding between the two races will produce in Bu-Lur.
To date only a few artists have attempted to illustrate the Don races and we have no photographs as photography, during trhe time of Greystoke’s visit, wasn’t capable of the portable cameras and film that we now possess. Thus all we have a re painting and drawings, made by various artists of varying skills.
Here, then, are a few of these illustrations. I hope that other visitors to that land will be able to bring back photographs or more paintings of the people of Pal-ul-Don.
By Edgar Rice Burroughs from his personal notebook:
By Russ manning:
By Joe Jusko:
By : J. Allen St.John
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