the South-Sea. 8^ 



quite round his Head : Their Garment was a Bag of Skins, 

 with the Hair inwards : Along their Arms, in the Sleeves, 

 lay their Quivers full of Arrows, fome of which they gavq 

 them, and help'd them to bring their Boat afliore. The 

 Sailors offer'd them Bread, Wine and Brandy, but they 

 would not tafteany: The next Day they faw from aboard 

 the Ship, 2 oo of them in a Body. Thofe Men, tho* larger, 

 are more fenfible of the Cold than the others ; for the 

 fmaller Size have no other Cloaths but a fingleSkin on their 

 Backs.* 



What T have here delivered upon the Teftimony of Per- 

 fons of Credit, is fo agreeable to what we read in the Re- 

 lations of the moft famous Travelers, that I am of Opi- 

 nion, it may be believ'd, without the Guilt of an Over- 

 Credulity, that there is in that Part of America, a Nation of 

 Men much exceeding us in Stature. The Particulars of 

 Time and Place., and all the Circumftances attending what 

 is faid about it,, feem to carry a fufficient Chara&er of 

 Truth to overcome the natural Prejudice we have on the 

 other Side.. The Extrao'rdinarinefs of the Sight may per- 

 haps have occafion'd fome Exaggeration in the Meafure of 

 the Height ; but if we ought to regard it as> guefs'd at, and 

 not taken exactly, we fhall find that they differ very little 

 from one another. The Reader will give me leave, in or- 

 der to* juftify what I have here advanced, to colled in this 

 Place,,, what is to be found difpers r d in feveral Efooks re- 

 lating to this Subjedh 



Anthony Pigafeta, to whom we are indebted for the Jour- Czorios de 

 nal of Ferdinand Magdlhanes^ or, as we call him 3 Magellan^ rebus Ema- 

 tells us, That in the Bay of S. Julian } in the Latitude of j? ue f lis Te ^ 

 about 49 Degrees and a half, the Spaniards faw feveral Gi^ h m ^ 

 ants, fo tall, that they did not reach up to their Waftes. 

 He fpeaks, among others, of one, who had the Figure of 

 a Heart painted on each Cheek : Their Weapons were 

 Bows and Arrows, and they were clad in Skins. 



Bartolome Leonardo de Argenfola, in the firft Book of his Ciertos Q~ 

 Hiftory of the Conqueft of the MoluCoo lOands, fays, Thatg"^ 1 " 3 * 



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