The TY6MIES of the Jnciems. 1 7 



ff!ics in Nature 5 he more zealouily afferts the Bemg of them, and alTares 

 us, That thk is no Fable, but a Truth, 



I (hall therefore now enquire what fort of Creatures thefe Pygmies 

 were 5 and hope, fo to manage the Matter, as in a great meafure, to a- 

 bate the Paffion thefe Great Men have had againft them : for, no doubt, 

 what has incenfed them the moft, was, the fabulous Hifiorims making 

 them a part of M<?»;^ W, and then inventing a hundred ridiculous Sto- 

 ries about them , which they would impofe upon the World as real 

 Truths. If therefore they have Satisfadion given them in thefe two 

 Points, I do not fee, but that the Bufinefs may be accommodated very 

 fairly ; and that they may be allowed to be Pjgmks^ tho' we do not 

 make them Men. 



For I am not of Gefners mind, Sed vetenim nuUm (faith he f^J) alt- 

 Ur de Pygm£kfcr2pfit, qnam Homundones ejje. Had they been a Race of 

 Men, no doubt but Arifiotle would have informed himfelf farther about 

 them. Such a Curiofity could not but have excited his Inquifitive Ge~ 

 mm, to a ftrifter Enquiry and Examination 5 and we might eafily have 

 expefted from him a larger Account of them. But finding them, it may 

 be, a fortofu4pe/, he only tells us, that in fuch a place thefe Pygmies 

 live. ' , 



Herodotus (/) plainly makes them Brutes : For reckoning up the Jni- 

 mats of Libya, he tells us, Ka/ ^ ol o(pl^i ol'^i^/AAyi^iq., iy of Movla; y^^la. 

 r^THi; daifii) oj i^itpctvAi n }^ a,^>t1oi^ii, a.cimS)ii -n jlj woiot ta Kk^nz r^oi/Ti?* itj ol 

 }wvoKA(^ct\Qi (in theMargin 'tisd^ipaAoi) 01 <lv -nTai g^^Svcrt ra? 0(p9aA/A«$ i^ovlig 

 Qei (^ ?\.iyi.1cq "^ \^o AiSuctJv} iy aX^oi ^v^pig,}t) yiwctiHAi dy^otj .k^ a?^ct, 7^^691 

 'zrsT^a, ^^xd.)(^1a.-^dj?'ce,'\.e,That there are here prodigious large Serpents,and 

 Lions,and Elephants,and Bears,and Ajps,and Ajjes that have horns,and Cyno- 

 cephali, (in the Margin 'tis Acephalfj that have Eyes in their Breaji , (as is 

 reported by the Libyans) and wild Men, and wild Women, and a great ma^ 

 ny other wild Beajis that are notfahdom. 'Tis evident therefore that He- 

 rodotus his ay^oi av^pi/;, iij yjvaiiac, ciypj.<tii are only r^Dg/a or wild BeafVs % . 

 and tho' they are cali'd av^pn;, they are no more Men than our Orang- 

 Outang, or Homo Sylvefiris, or vpild Man .., which has e'xadly the fame 

 Name, and I muft confefs I can't but think is the fame Animal : and . 

 that the fame Name has b^en continued down to us, from his Time, 

 and it may be from Homers. 



'So Philoftratm fpeakingof JEthiopia and Mgypt, tells us (d), Bocmsexi 

 3 K, ,3i?fja oTct b;^ iTipoe^i' st, dvQp-Ji'iTfiq fjilActvag, 6 fm aT^oLj mttsi^j, UvifAxtl- 

 ojj' 7s G^ oLtoac, e^rn, ';^ uXcvtlivTUv a/^o a>A>j' i. e. Here are bred wild Beafts 

 that are not /« other places 5 and blacky Men, which no other Country affords : 



(b) Oefner. Bftor. HuacCniped. p. ni.835, (c) Hendot. Melpomene fen lib.4. p. ni.285. (/) Phi- 

 lojlralHis in vita ApoUon, T^anai, lib. 6. cap. i. p. m. 258. 



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