Word: pendek
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There is the orang pendek, for instance -a smallish, hairy ape-man who lives (perhaps) in Sumatra. Natives take the orang pendek as a matter of course, and Dutchmen say they have seen them. Heuvelmans suspects that they are related to the nittaewo, the semi-aborigines of Ceylon, who were killed off about 1800 by the primitive Veddahs. Heuvelmans' theory is that much of southern Asia was inhabited long ago by small, hairy descendants of Java's Pithecanthropus erectus, who were largely exterminated by the invading humans. The orang pendeks, hiding deep in Sumatran jungles...
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