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whose great toe of his right foot was good for them 

 that had big swelled or indurate spleenes, if he did 

 hut touch the parties diseased with that toe. Vpon 

 a certaine mountain in India, named Mill us, there 

 he men whose feet grow the tother way backward, 

 and on either foot they haue eight toes, as Megas- 

 thenes doth report. And in many other hills of that 

 country, there is a kinde of men with heads like dogs, 

 clad all ouer with skins of wild beasts, who, in lieu 

 of speech, vse to bark ; armed they are, and well ap- 

 pointed with sharp and trenchant nailes. There be 

 women who beare but once in their life, and their 

 infants presently waxe grey so soon as borne into the 

 world. Also, there be a kinde of people named 

 Monoscelli, that haue but one leg apiece, but they are 

 most nimble, and hop wondrous swiftly ; the same 

 men are likewise called Sciopodes, for that, in hotest 

 season of the summer, they ly along on their back, 

 and defend themselves with their feet against the 

 sun's heate. Againe, beyond these westward, some 

 there be without heads standing vpon their neckes, 

 who cary eies in their shoulders. In the southern 

 parts, the men kind haue feet a cubit long, but the 

 women so short and smal, that therevpon they be 

 called Struthopodes, i. e. sparrow-footed. The Cho- 

 romandse are a sauage and wild people, distinct voice 

 and speech they haue none, but instead thereof, they 

 keep an horrible gnashing and hideous noise ; rough 

 they are, and hairy all ouer their bodies ; eies 

 they haue, red like the houlet, and toothed they be 



