People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1893 — The Pigmies of Spain. [ARTICLE]

The Pigmies of Spain.

The dwarf race of Morocco and the Atlas has been traced to Europe, and fairly pure types are found in Spain, especially in the province of Gerona. These people are only three feet seven inches to three feet nine inches high, and are otherwise characterized by a yellow skin, broad, square face, Mongolian eyes and red hair of woolly texture. Specimens of them are occasionally to be seen in the markets of Salamanca; and there is said to be a number in the Col de Tosas and the valley of Ribas, several hours by rail from Toflouae. It Is not improbable that the Mongolian eye, which is observed in a small percentage of Welsh and English people, is derived by inheritance i from the Iberian pigmies or a common, ancestry.—Cassell's Magazine.