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The Baresarks were true Giants in their manners, in their 

 liability to fits of phrensy, paroxysms already characterized in 

 the deeds of Hercules, and like the Malay muck. In Moslem. 

 Asia were the Chagis, naked fanatics of giant stature, in the 

 wars of the Crusades ; and there still remain Shumshurbas, 

 Pehlwan, Kawasses, prize-fighters and wrestlers, often pos- 

 sessed of immense muscular strength, kept in the pay of gran- 

 dees, like the ancient Blaumen of the north, or like Orson in 

 romance;* besides these, a nation of primeval invaders of 

 India, denominated Cattie, even now contains many warriors 

 above six feet high, with a powerful muscular structure; and 

 revealing the origin whence it came, by the occasional presence 

 of light-colored hair and gray eyes. 



As might be expected, physical Giants flourished longest in 

 the colder temperate regions of our hemisphere, and are traced 

 on the American continent, in the Mexican records, and high- 

 nosed human forms in relief; while there exist also several 

 tribes of American Indians, of very large stature, bearing, in 

 general, marks of a partially distinct origin from the others, 

 and still more from the Esquimaux. Again, in the cold 

 extreme south, the Patagonians, likewise apparently differing 

 from the more stunted Fuegians near them ; and the Araukas 

 or Arookas, perhaps a mutation of the Indian Azooras, com- 

 pared with the now extinct Flatheads ; and in both cases, fast 

 disappearing, by reason of recent interunion with trihes of 

 lower stature. South Africa, again, is in the possession of 

 a lofty race of Caffres, with their champion, Aba-lafas, by the 

 side of the dwarfish Bosjemans and Dokkos ; and in the moun- 

 tains of northern China, men above six feet in height occur. 

 But it is doubtful, whether, in any region, they do not all, 

 directly or indirectly, spring from the original bearded stock 

 of High Asia ; therefore conquerors, and always a master race. 



* The chained giant Widolt with the gavelock, and Wade with the 

 hammer, of the " Heldenbuch and Niebelungen " romances ; and the 

 wrestler Charles, in " As you like it," belong to this class. 

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