The pygmies

The African Pygmies (or Congo Pygmies, variously also "Central African foragers", "African rainforest hunter-gatherers" (RHG) or "Forest People of Central Africa" are a group of tribal ethnicities, traditionally subsisting in a forager and hunter-gatherer lifestyle, native to Central Africa, mostly the Congo Basin.

The pygmies, a Short Story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer.