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were certain that they no longer exifted, it would not from thence 

 follow that they never exifted ; for we are fare that there are whole 

 fpeciefes of animals, which were once in certain countries, but are 

 not now to be found there, fuch as wolves in Britain. And it is 

 very likely that thofe extraordinary men in India and Africa, of 

 whom antient authors fpeak, being, as is probable, but few in num- 

 ber, and confidered as monflers by the other men in thofe countries, 

 would be deftroyed or exterminated by them, as it is likely the 

 Troglodytes in Africa were, who, as Herodotus fays, were hunted 

 by the Garamantes, (an African nation), as if they had been wild 

 beafts *. Other men, of the fame monftrous appearance, have 

 been, I am perfuaded, deftroyed in the fame way, fuch as men with 

 the heads of dogs, who have not been feen by any modern travel- 

 ler, but of whom fo many antient authors fpeak, that I can hardly 

 doubt of their having once exifted, though they are not now to be 

 found t. 



» Lib. iv. Cap. 183. 



+ Photlus, in bis Excerpts from Ctefias Dt Indifis^ has given us the following 

 account of them : They were, fays Ctefias, a people in the mountainous country of 

 India, near to the river Indus, ?.nd were called by the Indians K«A,t;s-Tgr«<, in their 

 own language, which being tranflated into Greek, is Kwoki^ocXcc or dog headed : 

 And they had the tails, as well as the heads, of dogs. They had, he fays, no ufe of 

 fpeech, but fupplied the want of it by gefliculation, and a noife they made like the 

 barking of a dog. He fays, they lived in fociety together, were about 120,000 in 

 number, were very expert archers and throwers of the dart, paid yearly to the 

 King of India 1000 talents of filver, byway of tribute, and he, in return, every 

 fifth year, made them a prefent of 30 myriads of bows, as many darts, 12 myriads 

 of targets, and 5 myriads of fwords. In fhort, he relates fo many particulars con- 

 cerning them, that they mud have been a nation at that time very well known. 



With Ctefias concurs TElian, De Natura ^nimaliiim, (Lib. iv. Cjp. 46.) who 

 adds, that fomc of them were brought to Egypt in the time of the Ptolemies, where 

 they learned letters, to play upon the pipe and harp, and to dance ; and they 



went 



