bulk than any our Countries afford, fdch as the Ojiridges 
'^nd Cunters among Birds, the largeft Crocodiles^ the 
Moofe Deer^ tht Elephant ^ th.Q Rhinoceros^ tht Hippo- 
p^Mmus^ &c, among Qpadrupeds ^ in thofe parts of 
the World, I fay, v/here fuch hke vaft creatures are 
met with , . ns not unlikely that Humane Animals may 
alfo be fometimes found, much of a greater fize than 
any here among us. 
Antonius Pigafetta vir integerrim£ fidei ( fays Ulyjjes 
Aldrovandus of him in his Mo^firorum Hifioria , pag. 
^'y.y Oigantem apud Canibales America confpicatus eji. 
And Andreas Thevet^ the famous Voyager, and Cof~ 
mographer to Henry the gd^ King of France and Po- 
landy in his Defcription of America, printed in fol. at 
Paris^ 1575' ^'i'^re a-j. Chap. |. has a paflagc fo fatis- 
faftory in this point, and related with fuch particular 
convincing circumftances, all of his own knowledge,, 
that I could not omit fetting them down at large : 
Here he tells us, that being himfelf on the Coaft of 
Affrick-, in the Territory 6f i4rg:///X for three weeks to- 
gether, he chanc'd to meet with a nch Spanijfj Mer- 
chant, who had fomewhile before fuffered Shipwrack 
by a ftorm, as he touched at that place in his return 
homewards from the South America : but tho he had 
loft his Ship, the greateft part of the Merchandize, and, 
moft of his Men, yet he luckily faved a Coffer, where- 
in he had carefully preferved the Skull and Banes of an 
American Giant^ he had brought along with him from 
that Country 5 who was eleven foot and five inches iii 
heighth, and dyed in the year iS59' Thefe Bones he 
(hewed to Monfieur Thzvet, who was fo curious, that 
he took the meafares of the moft principal of them 3 
and heexprefles himfelf on this occafion in thefe words: 
Chofe Marveilleufe ! a laqneUe a grand peine Jenjfe ad- 
joHjie^ Foy fi jc 72e l enffe vme ; d'antant que les 0% des 
jamhes avoimt trois grand pieds qnatre doigts do long^ d* 
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