00:10Some years ago I was sent on an official lion hunt in this area, the Usharan Simibit forests
00:16on the western side of the Wembeer plains, and, while waiting in a forest glade for a maniata,
00:23I saw two small, brown, furry creatures come from dense forest on one side of the glade and disappear.
00:29Enter the thickets on the other.
00:31They were like little men, about four feet high, walking upright, but clad in russet hair.
00:38The native hunter with me gazed in mingled fear and amazement.
00:42They were, he said, Agogwe, the little furry men whom one does not see once in a lifetime.
00:49This was the first recorded sighting of the mysterious Agogwe, reported by Captain William
00:54Heakins in the December 1937 edition of the journal Discovery.
00:59The following year, another man named Vintnok Cuthbert Burgoyne, wrote a letter to the journal
01:05describing his sighting of something similar in 1927.
01:08The report reads thus.
01:10In 1927, I was with my wife coasting Portuguese East Africa in a Japanese cargo boat.
01:18We were sufficiently near to land to see objects clearly with a glass of twelve magnifications.
01:24There was a sloping beach with light bush above upon which several dozen baboons were hunting
01:29for and picking up shellfish of crabs, to judge by their movements.
01:33Two pure white baboons were amongst them.
01:37These are very rare but I had heard of them previously.
01:40As we watched, two little brown men walked together out of the bush and down amongst the
01:45baboons.
01:46They were certainly not any known monkey and yet they must have been a kin or they would
01:50have disturbed the baboons.
01:52They were too far away to be seen in great detail, but these small human-like animals were
01:57probably between four and five feet tall, quite upright and graceful in figure.
02:02At the time I was thrilled as they were quite evidently no beast of which I had heard or
02:08read.
02:08Later a friend and big game hunter told me he was in Portuguese East Africa with his wife
02:14and three other hunters, and saw mother, father and child, of apparently similar animal species,
02:21walk across the further side of a bush clearing.
02:24The natives loudly forbade him to shoot.
02:30The agogui, also known as the kakundakari, or kolumba in Zimbabwean Congo, is a human-like
02:37creature spotted in the forests and jungles of East Africa.
02:41Primarily hailing from Tanzania, on the eastern coast of Africa, these small, fur-covered, human-like
02:48creatures have been seen in Zimbabwean Congo.
02:51They have also been spotted on the Ivory Coast, where indigenes refer to the beasts as Sahite.
02:58It is usually described as being 1 to 1.7 meters tall with several human features.
03:07The creature is said to be bipedal and walks like a man.
03:10It also has odd characteristics such as long arms and rusty-colored hair covering its body,
03:16with yellowish-red skin under its coat.
03:19Sometimes the color is described as copper.
03:21Its feet are roughly 12 centimeters long.
03:25The differences between the agogui and a modern chimpanzee is that the agogui has a rounded
03:30forehead, smaller but sharper teeth, and then the differences in hair and skin color.
03:36Many East Africans claim that the agogui, are supposedly more grotesque in features and
03:42aggressive in action, than most of their primate kin.
03:46These tiny, and allegedly aggressive humanoids have been stalked by big game hunters and are
03:52believed by some to be a relic ancestor of the human race.
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