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moving their Eyes : and from Morning to Night stand some- 

 times on one Leg, and sometimes on the other, on the Burn- 

 ing Sand. Meyasthenes writeth, that on a Mountain named 

 Milo, there are Men whose Feet are turned backward, and 

 on each Foot they have eight Toes. And in many other 

 Mountains there is a kind of Men with Heads like Dogs, clad 

 all over with the Skins of Wild Beasts, and who instead of 

 Speech used to Bark : they are armed with Nails, and they live 

 on the Prey which they get by Hunting Beasts, and Fowling. 

 Ctesias writeth that there were known of them above 

 120,000 in number ; and that in a certain Country of 

 India the Women bear but once in their Life, and their 

 Infants presently become Grey. Likewise, that there is a 

 kind of People named Monoscelli, which have but one Leg, 

 but they are exceedingly Swift, and proceed by Hopping. 

 These same Men are also called Sciopodse, because in the 

 hottest Season they lie along on their Back on the Ground, 

 and defend themselves with the Shadow of their Feet : and 

 these People are not far from the Trogloditae. Again, be- 

 yond these westward, some there are without a Neck, but 

 carrying their Eyes in their Shoulders. Among the Western 

 Mountains of India there are the Satyri (the Country where 

 they are is called the Region of the Cartaduli), the swiftest 

 of all Animals : which sometimes run on four Legs, at 

 others on two Feet like Men : but so light-footed are they, 

 that unless they are very Old or Sick they cannot be taken. 

 Tauron writeth, that the Choromandee are a wild People, 

 without any Voice, but uttering a horrible Noise : their 

 Bodies Hairy, their Eyes bluish-grey, their Teeth like Dogs. 

 Eudoxus saith, that in the South Parts of India the Men 

 have Feet a Cubit long, but those of the Women 1 are 

 so small that they are called Struthopodes. Megasthenes 

 writeth, that among the Indian Nomadse there is a Nation 



1 This character is so applicable to Chinese women, that it seems to 

 point out the great antiquity to which the strange custom of binding their 

 feet can be traced. The name of Struthopodes, or ostrich-footed, can only 

 have been applied to them by foreigners, but is not badly descriptive of 

 the figure of this artificial deformity. Wern. Club. 



