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532 In the "Turkish Tales," we have also some notice of this "virtuous" people.

"The Samsards were monstrous anthropophagi, or men-eaters, who had the body of a man and the head of a dog."—Vol. ii. p. 349.

And Pliny (whom the Gest writer quotes) B. vii. c. 2, speaks of a country of India, "where there is a kind of men with heads like dogs, clad all over with the skins of wild beasts, who in lieu of speech used to bark."

"And in one of these isles are men that have but one eye, and that is in the middest of their front, and they eat their flesh and fish all raw." Mandevile; and Pliny, Lib. vii. c. 2.

"And in another isle are men that have no heads, and their eyes are in their shoulders, and their mouth is in their breast."—Mandevile: see also Pliny, and "Turkish Tales," Vol. ii. page 303.