ludolph's statement. 385 



they are. I have some singular evidence upon this 

 very subject, which I only wish somewhat farther 

 to confirm, to lay before the public; but shall at 

 present confine myself to denying, that the Doko, of 

 modern Abyssinian fable, represent the dwarfs 

 alluded to by the naturalists of antiquity ; or, that, 

 in fact, they are men at all. 



Ludolph and d'Lisle are, I believe, still the 

 great authorities upon the geography of interior 

 Africa ; their maps were evidently constructed from 

 well compared and long considered information; 

 and conjectural geographers of the present day, 

 are too glad, when their theories accord in any 

 way with the delineation of these countries as 

 represented by those authors. On examination of 

 their maps it will be perceived, that both received 

 such apparently well-authenticated accounts, of a 

 nation of dwarfs dwelling to the South of Abys- 

 sinia, that they had been obliged to recognise their 

 existence, and, of course, to find them a locality. 



Ludolph, whose knowledge of the Geez and 

 Amharic probably prevented him from considering 

 the accounts of so great an importance as did the 

 French geographer, only notices, by a small note 

 appended to the name on the map, that the King 

 of Zingero was stated to be a monkey. In the 

 body of his work, however, he represents that he 

 received considerable information respecting a 

 nation of dwarfs living in this situation, and who 

 accord in so many respects with the Doko of the 



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