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.

Professor Starr of Chicago on his return from this region reported many colonies of undersized people, but did not discover any pygmy tribes answering to the older legendary descriptions.