Africa and its inhabitants . y. •< 9!o az •< THE AKKAS. 469 buildings. The reception hall of the king of the Western Monluttus, (lc8troyeno, the Portuguese writers of the seventeenth century, and akin to the ..fU-Nyoro in the region of the equatorial lakes. Of all the African dwarfs. are considered by the learned as the best representatives of the littlepeople mentioned by llerodotus in connection with the wanderings of ihoNasamons. The two sent by Miani to Italy in 1S73 were respci-tively 4 ;et 4inches and 4 feet 8 inches high, while the tallest seen by S<
Africa and its inhabitants . y. •< 9!o az •< THE AKKAS. 469 buildings. The reception hall of the king of the Western Monluttus, (lc8troyeno, the Portuguese writers of the seventeenth century, and akin to the ..fU-Nyoro in the region of the equatorial lakes. Of all the African dwarfs. are considered by the learned as the best representatives of the littlepeople mentioned by llerodotus in connection with the wanderings of ihoNasamons. The two sent by Miani to Italy in 1S73 were respci-tively 4 ;et 4inches and 4 feet 8 inches high, while the tallest seen by S<hw. infurlh . notexceed 5 feet. The pure Akka type is brachyeephalic (round-he«de<l). large head, very projecting jaws, receding chin, nearlyalways open, less tumid lips than those of most Negrm-s, cheeks, small nose separated from the frontal Umv by a very !cavity, large ear, and wide-open eye giving then, a somewhat ^The body is of a lighter brown complexion than that of the true .Negro, i- of 470 WEST AFRICA. ungainly form, and according to Emin Bey e
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