pigmy

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Pigmy elephants and komodo dragons were commonplace, but crocodiles, giant rats, frogs and birds shared the island with the “hobbits”.

From The Guardian

Here we see a bald-headed Pigmy hero riding triumphantly on a mighty crocodile, regardless of the open-mouthed, bellowing hippopotamus behind him.

From Project Gutenberg

Years later Mr. James Harrison brought several of the Pigmy men and women to England, and they performed at the Hippodrome.

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Here, Mr Pigmy, conduct Mr Stutters to his cabin, and show him where the gunroom—ah!

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Some writers trace a resemblance between this Mohammedan legend and the story of the "Pigmies and the Cranes."

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