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‘* ority, both in form and feature, to the barbarous indigenous 
** tribes by which they were surrounded. . These traditions 
ib |. not only orally current among them, but are to be found 
mbedded in their imaginative literature.’ 
oN o corresponding epithet has yet been init in the Indian 
Epics, remarked McCrindle, for the Astomoi of Megasthenes, 
but ‘‘ there can be no doubt that in describing them he followed 
Indian accounts. 


1 Cf. McCriInpDxLE, Ancient nes as described in Classical Literature, 
Migarer se Constable, Rides 60. 
2C ., totd., 
