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to meet with thefe gigantic people, his contemporaries confi- 
dered the report as the invention of the Spaniards. 
In 1579, Pedro Sarmiento afferts, that thofe he faw were 
three ells high. ‘This is a writer ] would never venture to quote 
fingly, for he deftroys his own credibility by faying, the favage 
he made prifoner was an errant Cyclops: I only cite him to prove 
that he had fell in with a tall race, though he mixes fable with 
truth. 
Tw 1686, our countryman, fir Thomas Cavendifh, in his voyage, 
had only opportunity of meafuring one of their footfteps, which 
was eighteen inches long: \he alfo found their graves, and men- 
tions their cuftoms of burying near the fhore *. 
In 1591, Anthony Knevet, who failed with fir Thomas Caven- 
difb in his fecond voyage, relates, that he faw, at Port Dejire, 
men fifteen or fixteen {pans high, and that he meafured the bo- 
dies of two that had been recently buried, which were fourteen 
fpans long f. 
1599.—Sebald de Veert, who failed with admiral de Cordes, was 
attacked in the ftreight Magel/an by favages whom he thought 
to be ten or eleven feet high: he adds, that they were of reddifh 
color, and had long hair f. 
In the fame year Oliver du Nort, a Dutch admiral, had a ren- 
contre with this gigantic race, whom he reprefents to be of a 
high ftature and of a terrible afpect. 
* Purchas,i. 58. 
+ Purchas, 1. 1232. 
t Col. Voy. by the Dutch Eat India company, &¢. London 1703. Pp. 319- 
1614. 
