12 A Philological Effay concerning 



T^ooyXo^taUj ouSzOTTs; 'OT5bt?,7a;^i5'0( dv^^oiiTocv TmvTav dot, 'Pjjt^ fiju,&i<; -ni^/t Ao- 

 ^8^ ^^^s^/W-eya? diu^ojMv. 1.i.1iov1om 3 01 T^cc-j-Ao^ro!/ opii;, ;t, 2c4^'^8?, £, to 

 TDicfJj'Tsi.r^^ 'E^TTilcev, T^Sosav '"^ hi^fju^ ce.?^J;i 7nt^f.tjOilw vivo[ut(af,ai^ dT^a. 

 ■nl^vyzai fc^Qd-m^ au vvK^^hc,' i. e. Thcfe Garamantes htmt the Troglodyte 

 Ethiopians in Chariots ■with four Horfes. The Troglodyte iEthiopi ;qs 

 m'e the fwjfteTi of foot of all Men that ever he heard of by any Report. The 

 Troglodytes eat Serpents and Lizards, aftdfuch fort of Reptiles. Thejinfe 

 a Language like to no other Tongue,, but fcreech like Bats. 



Now that the Rygmies are Troglodytes, or do live in Caves , is plain 

 from Ariflotle (i), who faith, T^«}.Ao§^r<z/^<\' &ioi -r $lov. And fo l^hilo- 

 flratm (4)? Tb^ q vru^ /jLulnq oh&v /Mv \hniyi^'di. And methinks Le Compte's 

 Relation concerning the wild or favage Man in B(?r«e(?, agrees fo well with 

 this, that I fhall tranfcribe it : for he tells us , (/) That in Borneo this 

 wild tfr favage Man is indued with extraordinary prength ; and notwith- 

 jlanding he walks hut upon two Legs, yet he is fo fwift of foot, that they 

 have much ado to outrun him. People of ^tality courfe him , as we do Stags ^ 

 here : and this fort of hunting is the Kings ufual divertifement. And Gaf- 

 fendus in the Life of Peiresky, tells us they commonly hunt them too in 

 Angola in Afiica, as I have already mentioned. So that very likely He- 

 rodotus' s Troglodyte JEthiopians may be no other than our Orang-Outang 

 or wild Man. And the rather, becaufe I fancy their Language is much 

 the fame; for an Ape will chatter, and make a noife like a Bat, as 

 his Troglodytes did: And they undergo to this day the fame Fate 

 of being hunted, as formerly the Troglodytes ufed to be by the Gara- 

 mantes. 



Whether thofe dv^^i; fjun^si; fjml^m i/\.dcsova? dv^^oev which the Na- 

 famones met with (as Herodotus (ki) relates) in their Travels to difcover 

 Libya, were the Pygmies 5 I will not determine : It feems the Nafatac 

 nes neither underflood their Language, nor they that of the A'';f/rf»/(7«ej-. 

 However, they were fo kind to the Nafamones as to be their Guides a- 

 Jong the Lakes, and afterwards brought them to a City, dv r^ Tmvlcii 1^ 

 ToTai dyaai 70 fjikyt^©^ fcra^, yeM/Mx, g (jJcXaxoLC,, i.e. in which aUwere of the 

 fame flature with the Guides, and black,' Now fince they were all little 

 blacky' Men, and their Language could not be underftood, I do fufpedi 

 they may be a Colony of the Pygmies : And that they were no farther 

 Guides to the Nafamones, than that being frighted at the fight of them, 

 they ran home, and the Nafamones followed them. 



I do not find therefore any good Authority, unlefs you will reckon 

 Ctefias as fuch, that the Pygmies ever ufed a Language or Speech, any 



(i ) Anft. H'lfl. Animal, lib. 8. cap. 15. p. m. 913. (k) Philojlrat, in vita ApoUon. Tyitnti, lib. $. 

 cap. i4.p."m. 152. (/) Lewiile Compte Memoirs and Obfervations on Cbina, p. m. 510. (m) He- 

 rodotui in Euterpe fcii lib. 2. p. m. 102. 



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