pigmy

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Since no drying sunshine ever penetrates, the Pigmy Forest is bottomed by a slimy ooze.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pigmy hippopotamuses, red pigmy buffaloes, pigmy elephants, swift little hairy-horned okapi all lurk in the tangled, humid fastness of the Belgian Congo's deep Itura Forest.

From Time Magazine Archive

By way of climax, they skirted the edge of the Great Pigmy Forest, one of the gruesome wonders of the world.

From Time Magazine Archive

The soul is supposed by various races to be a little man, an idea which at once links the manes of the departed with Pigmy people.

From A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Tyson, Edward

Tales of little people are to be found in countries where there never were any Pigmy races.

From A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Tyson, Edward