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whose great toe of his right foot was good for them 
that had big swelled or indurate spleenes, if he did 
but touch the parties diseased with that toe. Vpon 
a certaine mountain in India, named Millus, there 
be men whose feet grow the tothor way backward, 
and on either foot they haue eight toes, as Megas- 
thenes doth report. And in many other hills of that 
country, there is a kinde of men with heads like dogs, 
clad all ouer with skins of wild beasts, who, in lieu 
of speech, vse to bark ; armed they are, and well ap- 
pointed with sharp and trenchant nailes. There be 
w'omen who beare but once in their life, and their 
infants presently waxe grey so soon as borne into the 
world. Also, there be a kinde of people named 
Monoscelli, that haue but one leg apiece, but they are 
most nimble, and hop wondrous swiftly ; the same 
men are likewise called Sciopodes, for that, in hotest 
season of the summer, they ly along on their back, 
and defend themselves with their feet against the 
sun’s heate. Againe, beyond these westward, some 
there be without heads standing vpon their neckes, 
who cary eies in their shoulders. In the southern 
parts, the men kind haue feet a cubit long, but the 
women so short and smal, that therevpon they be 
called Struthopodes, i. e. sparrow-footed. The Cho- 
romand® are a sanage and wild people, distinct voice 
and speech they haue none, but instead thereof, they 
keep an horrible gnashing and hideous noise ; rough 
they are, and hairy all ouer their bodies ; eies 
they haue, red like the boulet, and toutlied they be 
