"Some years ago I was sent on an official lion-hunt in this area (the Ussure and Simibit
forests on the western side of the Wembare plains) and, while waiting in a forest glade
for a man-eater, I saw two small, brown, furry creatures come from dense forest on one side
of the glade and disappear into the thickets on the other. They were like little men, about
4 feet high, walking upright, but clad in russet hair. The native hunter with me gazed
in mingled fear and amazement. They were, he said, agogwe, the little furry men whom
one does not see once in a lifetime".
This was the first recorded sighting of the mysterious Aagogwee , reported by Captain
William Hichens in the December 1937 edition of the journal Discovery.
The following year, Another man named Vintner Cuthbert Burgoyne, wrote a letter to the journal
describing his sighting of something similar in 1927. The report read thus;
"In 1927, I was with my wife coasting Portuguese East Africa in a Japanese cargo boat. We were
sufficiently near to land to see objects clearly with a glass of twelve magnifications. There
was a sloping beach with light bush above upon which several dozen baboons where hunting
for and picking up shell fish of crabs, to judge by their movements. Two pure white baboons
were amongst them. These are very rare but I had heard of them previously. As we watched,
two little brown men walked together out of the bush and down amongst the baboons. They
were certainly not any known monkey and yet they must have been akin or they would have
disturbed the baboons. They were too far away to be seen in great detail, but these small
human-like animals were probably between four and five feet tall, quite upright and graceful
in figure. At the time I was thrilled as they were quite evidently no beast of which I had
heard or read. Later a friend and big game hunter told me he was in Portuguese East Africa
with his wife and three other hunters, and saw mother, father and child, of apparently
similar animal species, walk across the further side of a bush clearing. The natives loudly
forbade him to shoot". The Aagogwee, also known as the Kaakundakari, or Kilomba ​in
Zimbabwe and Congo, is a human-like creature spotted in the forests and jungles of East
Africa.
Primarily hailing from Tanzania – on the eastern coast of Africa, these small, fur
covered, human-like creatures have been seen in Zimbabwe and Congo. They have also been
spotted on the Ivory Coast, where indigenes refer to the beasts as Sehite.
It is usually described as being 1 to 1.7 meters (that is, 2 to 5 feet) tall with several
human features. The creature is said to be bipedal and walks like a man. It also has
odd characteristics such as long arms and rusty-colored hair covering its body, with
yellowish-red skin under its coat. Sometimes the colour is described as copper. Its feet
are roughly 12 cm long. The differences between the Aagogwee and a
modern chimpanzee is that the Aagogwee has a rounded forehead, smaller but sharper teeth,
and then the differences in hair and skin colour.
Many east Africans claim that the Aagogwee – are supposedly more grotesque in features
and aggressive in action, than most of their primate kin.
These tiny, and allegedly aggressive humanoids have been stalked by big game hunters and
are believed by some to be a relic ancestor of the human race.