A Philological Elfay concerning 



of the Relator : Tis this that has incited them to give their feveral Con- 

 je<3ures about it. Job Ludolplms finding what has been offered at in Re- 

 lation to the ?ygmks^ not to fatisfie, he thinks he can better account for 

 this Story, by leaving out the Cranes, and placing in their ftead, another 

 fort of Bird he calls the C(?«<^i7r. I will give you his own words: Sed 

 ad Pygmaos (faith (^o") Ludolphu/) revertamar 5 fabuU de Geranomacbia. 

 Fygm£orHmfeH pttgna cum Grmbm etiam aliquld de vera trahere ■videtur, ft 

 pro Grmhtts Condoras intelligas, Aves in interiore Africa maximas^ ^^tfi- 

 dem pene excedat 5 a/UKt enini quod Ales ijia vituluKi Ekphatiti in Aerem 

 ext oiler e pojjlt , ut infra docehimus. Cam hk Pygmaos pugnare , ne pecora 

 faa rapiant , incredibile non eU. Error ex eo natus videtur, quod primus 

 Relator^ alio vocabulo defhiUitus., Griies pro Qondoris nominkrit^ ficuti Plau- 

 tui Picos pro Gryphibus, df' Romani Boves liicas pro Ekphantfs dixere. 



Tis true, if what Juvenal only in ridicule mentions , was to be ad- 

 mitted as a thing really done, that the Cranes could fly away with a Pjg- 

 mie^ as our Kites can with a Chicken, there might be fome pretence for 

 hudovicm % Condor ox CtinBor : For he mentions afterwards C^ Jour of 

 V. Job. dos Santos the Portnguefe, that 'twas obferved that one of thefe 

 Condors once flew aWay with an Ape, Chain , Clog and all > about 

 ten or twelve pounds weight, which he carried to a neighbouring Wood, 

 and there devoured him. And Garcilaffo de la Vega (q") relates that 

 they will feize and fly away with a Child fen or twelve years old. 

 But Juvenal (r) only mentions this in ridicule and merriment , where 

 he faith, 



Adfiibitas Tbracum volucres, nubemque fonoram 

 Pygi>t£0s parvis currit Bellator in armk : 

 Mox impar hofii, raptufque per aera curvk 

 UnguibmafdSvhferturGrue. 



Befides, were the Condors to be taken for the Cranes^ it would utterly 

 rpoil the PygmeBomacbia ; for where the Match is fo very unequal , 'tis 

 impoflible for the Pygmies to make the leafl (hew of a fight. Ludolphus 

 puts as great hardftiips on them, to fight thefe Condors , as Fojfius did, in 

 making'therri fight E/e;?/jrf«^j-,but not with equal Succefsj for Voffim's Pyg- 

 mies made great Slaughters of the Elephants ; but Ludolphus his Cranes 

 fweep away the Pygmies^is eafily as an OvpI would a Moufe, and eat them 

 up into the bargain ^ now I never heard the Cranes were fo cruel and 

 barbarous to their Enemies, tho' there are fome Nations in the World 

 that are reported to do fo. 



Moreover, thefe Condors I find are very rare to be met with , and 



(0) Job Liidolphm Comment, in Hilloriam fuam ^thiopk. Y>- J ^- (j>) Job Ludolphm ibU. pzg. 164. 

 (q) OarcilaJJb de la Vega Ko)al Commait. o/Peru. (r) Jmenal Satyr, i^. verf. 15.7.. 



when 



