The feventli Booke of 



iilcn5namely3the Cyclopes ^nd Lyftrigones : nay^if wee were not credibly cnfotaied^ that even G 

 of late daiesjand goe no farther than to the other fide of the Ajpes^ there be diofe that kill men 

 for facrifice after the mancr of thofc Scythian people ; and that wants not much of chewing and 

 eating their fleQi. Moreover, neere unto thofe Scythians thatinhabite toward the pole Artickc, 

 and nocfarre from that climate which is under the very rifing of the Northeaft windg and about 

 that famous cave or hole out of which that wind is faid to ilfue, which place they call Gef-cli- 

 thron^p.the cloifturc or key of the earth] the Arimafpians by report doe dwelljWho as wee have 

 faid before^are knowne by this marke/or having oneeie onely in the mids of their forehead: and 

 thefe maintaine warre ordinarily about the mettall mines of gold^eipecially with griffons ja kind 

 of wild bcafts that flie^and ufe to fetch gold out of the veines of thofc mines (as commonly it is 

 received:) which favage beafts (as many authors haverecordedjandnamely Berodotm and Arl- H 

 y/f-z^* the Proconnefian^two writers of greaiell name) ftrive as eagerly to keepe and hold thoic 

 golden minesjas the Arimiafpians to diffeize them thereof^and to get away the gold from them. 

 Above tholCjare other Scythians called Anthropophagi, where is a country named Abarimon, 

 within a certaine vale of the mountainelmaus, wherein are found favage and wild men^ living 

 and converfing ufually among the brute beails, who have their feet growing backward, and tur- 

 ned behind the calves of their legSjhowbeit they run mof^ fwiftly.Thefe kind of n)en can endure 

 to live in nd other aire nor in any other clime els than their owne^ which is the reafon thatthcy 

 cannot be drawne to come unto other kings that border upon them 3 nor could be brought unto 

 Alexander the great: as Eeton)\v^ reportedjthe marfhail of that princes campjand who alio put 

 downe his geaff s and journies in writing. The former Anthropophagi or e^atcrs of mans flefh I 

 whom we have placed about the North polcjtenne daies journey by land above the river Bory- 

 fthenesj u(e to drinke out of the fculs of mens heads^ and to weare the fcalpes,haire and ail , ia 

 Iked of mandellions or flomachers before their breafts, according as 7/% the Niccan wit- 

 neficth. The fame writer aifirmeth moreover^That in Albanie there bee a f ort of people borne 

 with eies like owles^whcreof the fight is fire red : who from theif childhood are grey headedj and 

 can fee better by night than day .He rcporteth alfoathattennedaiesjoumiebeyondBoryfihcneSi 

 the Sauromates never eat but one meaie of meat in three daies. Craes of Pergamus faithj That 

 in Hellefpont about Parium there was a kind of men(whom he nanieth Ophiogenes)that if one 

 wereftungwith aferpent^ with touching onelyjwiileafethepainerand if they doe but lay iheic 

 hands upon the wound jare wont to draw forth all the venome out of tiie bodie.Andr^^rr^! teffifi-^ f' K 

 ctb, rh;U even at this day there be fome there who warifli and cute the flinging of ferpents with 

 tlicirfpittlcjbuc there are butfewfuch as hciaiih. Agatharcidcs writeth^that in Affricke the Pfyl- 

 lians (fo called of king Pfjllm^ from whofe racethey were defcended, and whole fepulchrc or 

 tombe is at this day prefent to bee feene in a part of the greater Syrtes)could doc the like . Thefe 

 men had naturally that in their owne bodies^ which like a deadly bane and poyfon would kill all 

 ferpents : br the very aire and fent that breathed from them, was able to flupifie and fli ike them 

 ftarke dead. And by this meanes they ufed to trie the chaifitie and honeflie of their wives. For lb 

 foone as they were delivered of children, their manner was to expofe and prefent the filie babes 

 new borne, unto the mofl fell and eruell ferpents they could find : for if they were not right but 

 gotten in adukety,the faid ferpents would not avoid & flie from them.This nation verily in gene- ^ 

 rail hath ben defeatedgSi killed up in manner all,by iheNafamones,who now inhabit thofe parts 

 wherein they dwelt: howbeit,a kind remainethfliill of themjdefcendedfrom thofethat madetl-iift 

 away and fled,orelfe were not prefent at the faid bloudiebattell, but there are very few of them 

 at this day left.The Marlians in Italic at this prefent continue withthe like naturail vertue againffe 

 ferpents ; whom being reputed for to have defcended from ladie Circes fQnne^thc people in this 

 regard doe highly efleemCjand are verily perfuadedj that they have in them thefamefacultie by 

 kind. And what great wonder is thisj confidenng that all men carrie about them that which is 

 poyfon to ferpents :for if it be true that is reportedjthey will no better abide the touching with 

 mans fj:)ittle5than fcalding water cafl upon them;but if it happen to light within their chawes,or 

 get into their mouthjefpecially if it come from a man that is fafling,it is prefent death. Eeyond M 

 thofe Nafamones, and their neighbours confining upon them (the Machlyes)there bee found 

 ordinarily Hermaphrodites,called Androgyni^of a double nature,and refembling both fexes, 

 male and female^who have carnall knowledge one of another interchangeably by turns^ as Cal- 

 it^hanes doth report.^r//?(?//cTaith moreoverathat on the right fide of their breafl they have a lit* 



