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and fo valiant, as that the ICing oi India makes choice of them for his 

 Corps de Guards-^ which utterly fpoils Homers Simle , in making them 

 fo little, as only to fight Cwwej-. 



Cteftas's Account therefore of the 'Pygmlesf^^sl find it in Vhotrm'sEihUo' 

 theca. (x) , and at the latter end of fome Editions of Herodotus) is 

 this : 



"Ot? d* (AAavi rif Iv^n^ av^pocnoi Narrat prater ijia, in media India. 



£t(?i likXcLvic,^ ii) K^XdUvmi 'jpS^oi, homines reperiri nigros , qui Pygntai 



TvTg a??kO(? o/uLoyhceosoi'h^T^' fJUK^i appellentur. Eadetn hos ^ qua Inda 



M dsi KiolV d lAMX^Tztloi aZ-Pi/S mt' reliqui^ lingua iiti., fed valde ejfe par- 



yiclov ^0, ol 3 ■3?L&i?'oi, kvh r\jJJ.(^'3^ "m- -vos, nt maximi dtiorum atbitorum^ 



yiooi;, wajxku % eVasi fjui.v.^'m.'rlw , & plerique unius duntaxat cnbiti cum 



jixiy^ K^'^ -myovccla, it) iri f(^1oii- dimdio altitudinem non excedant. 



lipov, it} •3ri$y«)ya /jjiyi^ov Travmv dv Comam alere longijjintam, ad ipfa uf- 



^poenciv' iir&i^v Sv riiv 'ctroeyuvct /xiyt que genua demijjam^atque etiam infia^ 



(pucnjoinv, iKiTi djupivvzwla^ 8^v Ijud- cum barba longiore, quam apud uUos 



TiQv : eiMa TO? tpi-)^ciz, Tug fm> doc T hominum. ^/<e quidem ubi illis pro- 



.KnpaXa'.g, tm^iv )(a^^kv1ct! ris-oXv fi^TVi mijjior ejje ctsperit, nuUa deinceps ve- 



■r^ yovdrav' to; J) o« •?§ •^i^w')Al^(^, Jie nti : fed capil/os mulia injra genua 



iju(,Tr^(Qiv fji.i')^^ 'zs-o^v i?\.rto//,ivag. E- a tergo demijos ., barbdmqtte prcBter 



vniTo. ■7n^'Tvi(^<TdfA/ivoi tk? TPCf ^ peUm ad pedes ufque defluentem^ per 



inzj^ cc,7rav td raj;t*<«, ^wvvmjIiaj, ^poo- totum corpus in orbem conjiipare & 



fMvoi alTicic, d.vn \fxct\iii. cu^oiov g y-i- cingere, atque it a piles ipjis fuos ve- 



'^ i^ddtv.M^i-^sui^v -^^ afvpocv cw'^, Jiimentiloco ejfe. Veretrum illis ejfe 



it, Tra-)^. cwTDili ai^ioin }y ou^fOf'. tk crajfum ac longum^ quod ad ipfos quo- 



3'3r'po'Sa7actJ7^5 B? aps;. it, ou /So2$ que pedum malleolos pertingat. Pjg- 



jt, Of ovoh '^'i^v omv K^oi. Zf ol tir^oi meos hofce fimk ejfe naribus^ & de- 



cwT^ it, 01 M/Aiofoi, it) TO. clT^ci, 'TTZiv'lci. fomtes. Ipforum item oves agnorum 



"Qocct, i§iv fMi^ct) x^Sv. iTTQvlcij ^ 7W noftrorum inflar ejfe ; boves & afnos, 



^cfn/K^i T^t! 'h^Vi Tvmv'P^ '7ni\u/xim arietum feri magnitudine, equositem 



avS'pig r^^iAioi. C7(p6^^ ')cl'p d(xi multofque & catera jumenta omnia 



rn0teij' hv.Mi-nthi ^i ^ai k<u v6f.mm „jhilo ejfe nojiris arietibus major a. 



^^(SvTKi oiOfTio K-u ol 'h^L ^ Aay»85 7E Xria horum Vygm^orum millia Indo- 



H^\ dXiiWi^c, ^pdjaaiv, a TvTq mjmv, ypfff^ regem in fuo comitatu habere^ 



dT^^Ko^li 1(^1 iK-r.cn x^} -Mpulvaic, qnodfagittarij jtnt peritijjimi. Sum- 



Kcu armg. jjjos ejfe jujlitis cultores, iifdemque 



quibus Indi reliqui ^ legibus parere. 

 Venari quoque lepores vulpefque^ non canibus, fed corvk., milvis, cornicibus, 

 aquilfs adhibitis^ q 



' In the middle of India ({a.ith Ctef as ) there arc black Men, they are 

 ' caird Pygmiesy ufing the fame Language , as the other Indians 3 they 



(x) Fhoti) BMothic. Cod, 7a. p. m. 145. 



are 



