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"And in another isle are men that go ever on their hands marvellously, and they have on every foot eight toes."—.

"In this country women shave their heads, and not men."—.

"The region above Sirbithim, where the mountaines doe end, is reported to have upon the sea-coast certaine Æthiopians called Nisicastes and Nisites, that is to say, men with three or four eies apeece; not for that they are so eied indeed, but because they are excellent archers."—''Pliny, Nat. Hist.'' lib. vi. c. 30.

"He and his subjects are not like us, men without heads: they have heads like those of birds; and their voice so exactly resembles the voice of birds,