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Entry of the Island Seventy Miles, and just by, there was 

 another Island called Tatu, which formed a Port for them 

 that approached by the Channel on the Right. The Buildings 

 within the Town were few ; the Isle was subject to a Queen 

 named Candaoce, 1 a name that for many years already hath 

 passed in succession from one Queen to another, Within 

 this Town is the Shrine of Hammon for Devotion ; and in all 

 that Tract many Chapels. Finally, so long as the Ethiopians 

 were powerful this Island was very famous. For by report, 

 they were accustomed to furnish of Armed Men 250,000, and 

 to maintain of Artisans 400,000. Also it is at this day reported 

 that there have been Forty-five Kings of the Ethiopians. 



CHAPTER XXX. 

 The Manifold and Wonderful Forms of Men* 



BUT the Nation in general was in old time called 

 ^Etheria ; 3 afterwards Atlantia ; and finally from Vulcan's 

 Son ^Ethiops, it took the name of Ethiopia. It is no won- 

 der, that about the remote Borders of it there are produced 

 both Men and Beasts of monstrous Shapes, considering the 

 Agility of the Fiery Heat to frame Bodies and carve them 

 into strange Shapes. It is reported by some, that far within 

 the Country eastward there are Nations without Noses, but 

 having their Visage all Plain and Flat: that others are 

 without any Upper Lip, and some without Tongues ; also, 

 there is a kind of them that have the Mouth grown to- 

 gether, and are without Nostrils ; so that at the same Orifice 

 only they take in Breath, receive Drink by drawing it in 

 through an Oaten Straw, and Feed themselves with the 

 Grains of Oats which grow of their own accord for their 

 Food. Others there are, who instead of Speech make Signs 

 by nodding their Heads, and moving their Limbs. There 

 are also some that before the Time of Ptolemceus Lathyrus 



1 See Acts of Apostles, viii. 27. 

 1 See further, Book vii. c. 2. 



3 As all Pliny's authors were Greek or Roman, he was ignorant that 

 a much more ancient name was Gush. Wern. Club* 



