2 o CURIOUS CREATURES. 



they lose the savour of apples they dye they are not 

 reasonable, but as wyld beastes. And there is another 

 yle where the people are all fethers, 1 but the face and 

 the palmes of theyr handes, these men go as well about 

 the sea, as on the lande, and they eate flesh and fish all 

 raw. ... In Ethiope are such men that have but one 

 foote, and they go so fast y l it is a great marvaill, & 

 that is a large fote, that the shadow thereof covereth y c 

 body from son or rayne, when they lye upon their backes ; 

 and when their children be first borne they loke like 

 russet, and when they waxe olde then they be all black." 



There were also ele- 

 phant-headed men. 



In the olden times were 

 men who did not build 

 themselves houses but 

 sheltered themselves in 

 caves, fissures of rocks, &c., 

 and many are the remains 

 we find of their flint im- 

 plements, and the bones, 

 which they used to split 

 in order to extract the 

 marrow of the animals 

 they had slain with their 

 rude flint arrows and 

 spears. These, in classi- 

 cal times, were called Tro- 

 'glodytes (from the Greek 

 dwellers in caves). It was a generic term, 

 although particularly applied to uncivilised races on 

 the banks of the Danube those who dwelt on the 



1 Other editions read rough hair. 



