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"And there is in that wilderness many wild men with horns on their heads, very hideous, and they speak not."—.

"In Ethiope such men as have but one foot, and they go so fast that it is a great marvel; and that is a large foot, for the shadow thereof covereth the body from the sun, or rain, when they lie upon their backs; and when their children are first born, they look like russet, but when they wax old, they be all black."—.

Pliny calls these people.

"Higher in the countrey, and above these, even in the edge and skirts of the mountaines, the Pygmæi Spythamei are reported to bee: called they are so, for that they are but a cubite or three shaftments (or spannes) high, that is to say, three times nine inches. The clime wherin they dwell is very wholesome, the aire healthie, and ever like to the