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WOCHUA (Aci;ua.)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 767 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WOCHUA (Aci;ua.) , a See also:pygmy See also:people of See also:Africa, living in the forests of the Mabode See also:district, See also:south of the Welle. They were discovered (188o-1883) by Dr W. See also:Junker, who described them as " well proportioned, though the See also:oval-shaped See also:head seemed somewhat too large for the See also:size of the See also:body." Some are of See also:light complexion, like the See also:Akka and See also:Batwa, but as a See also:general See also:rule they belong to the darker, crisper-haired, more genuine See also:negro stock.

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