These people are called the Akkas, and wonderful tales are told
of their agility and cunning, characteristics that seem to
compensate for their small stature.
In 1860 Paul DuChaillu speaks of the existence of an African
people called the Obongos, inhabiting the country of the
Ashangos, a little to the south of the equator, who were about
1.4 meters in height. There have been people found in the
Esquimaux region of very diminutive stature. Battel discovered
another pygmy people near the Obongo who are called the Dongos.
Kolle describes the Kenkobs, who are but 3 to 4 feet high, and
another tribe called the Reebas, who vary from 3 to 5 feet in
height. The Portuguese speak of a race of dwarfs whom they call
the Bakka-bakka, and of the Yogas, who inhabit territory as far
as the Loango. Nubia has a tribe of dwarfs called the Sukus, but
little is known of them. Throughout India there are stories of
dwarf tribes descended from the monkey-God, or Hoonuman of the
mythologic poems.
In the works of Humboldt and Burgoa there is allusion to the
tradition of a race of pygmies in the unexplored region of
Chiapas near the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Central America. There
is an expedition of anthropologists now on the way to discover
this people.
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