Figure 160 represents two dwarf Cottas measuring 3 feet 6 inches in height.
The African pygmies who were sent to the King of Italy and shown in Rome resembled the pygmy travelers of Akka that Schweinfurth saw at the court of King Munza at Monbuttu.

These two pygmies at Rome were found in Central Africa and were respectively about ten and fifteen years old.

They spoke a dialect of their own and different from any known African tongue; they were partly understood by an Egyptian sergeant, a native of Soudan, who accompanied them as the sole survivor of the escort with which their donor, Miani, penetrated Monbuttu.

Miani, like Livingstone, lost his life in African travel.

These dwarfs had grown rapidly in recent years and at the time of report, measured 1.15 and 1.02 meters.