The TYGMIES of the Jnaents. 



' are very little , the talleft of them being but two Cubits, and moft of 



* them but a Cubit and a half high. They have very long hair, reaching 



* down to their Knees and Ibwer ; and a Beard larger than any Man's. 



* Alter their Beards are grown long, they wear no Cloaths, but the Hair 



* of their Head falls behind a great deal below their Hams 5 and that of 

 ' their Beards before comes down to their Feet: then laying their Hair 



* thick all about their Body, they afterwards gird therafelves, making 

 ' ufe of their Hair for Cloaths. They have a Venis fo long, that it rea- 



* ches to the Ancle, and the thicknefs is proportionable. They are flat 



* nofed, and ill favoured. Their Sheep are like Lambs ; and their Oxen 



* and AfTes fcarce as big as Rams 5 and their Horfes and Mules, and all 



* their other Cattle not bigger. Three thoufand Men of thefe Pygmies 

 ' do attend the King o^ India. They are good Archers -^ they are very 

 ' juft, and ufe the ^me Lavps as the Indians do. They kill Hares and 

 ' Foxes, not with Dogs, but with Ravens, Kites, Crows, and Eagles. 



Well, if they are fo good Sports-men, as to kill Hares and Foxes with 

 Ravens, Kites, Crows and Eagles, I can't feehow Icanbring ofFi/^j^s^er, 

 for making them fight the Cranes't\\tmk\vts. Why did they not fly 

 their E<z^/ej- againft them > thefe would make greater Slaughter and Ex- 

 ecution, without hazarding themfelves. The only Excufe I have is,thae 

 Homers Vygmies were real A^es like Men ; but thofe of O^efias were nei- 

 ther Men nor Pygmies 5 only a Creature begot in his own Brain, and to 

 be found no where elfc. 



Ctejias vs^as Phyfician to Artaxerxes Mmnton as Hiodorm Siculus ( y) 

 and Straho (z) inform us. He was contemporary with Xenophon, a little 

 later than Herodotus 5 and Helvicus in his Chronology places him three hun- 

 dred eighty three years before Chri^ : He is an ancient Author, 'tis true, 

 and it may be upon that fcore valued by fome. We are beholden to him, 

 not only for his Improvements on the Story of the Pygmies, but for his 

 Remarks likewife on feveral other parts of Natural Hiflory 5 which for 

 the moft part are all of the fame ftam{), very wonderful and incredible 5 

 as his Mantichora^ his Gryphins, the horrible Indian Worm^ a Fountain of 

 Liquid Gold., a Fountain of Honey^ a Fountain whofe Water will make 

 a Man confefs all that ever he did, a Root he calls TrdpYiSov, that will at- 

 traft Lambs and Birds, as the Loadftonedoes filings of Steel 5 and a great 

 many other Wonders he tells us : all which are copied from him by 

 JElian., Pliny ^ Solinus^ Mela., Phi lojiratus and others. And Photius con- 

 dudes CtejioiS Account of India with this palTage 3 Tcei^ra y^<^mv xau 

 lAxi^7\.aySiv KTnaicti;. y\iyn r d.An^tg'aifla, y^<p&tv' iTmyuv oe<; to. [mv aZiix; l^h 



i7V)(ficl<p&iv' i. e. Thefe things (faith he) Ctefias writes and feigns^ but he 



(yy Viodor. SkuHBibliotliecAih. 2. ^.m,iiB. (z) StraboGeo^raph, lib. 14. p.4Sf« 



hm.=^.- 



