So Philostratus speaking of AEthiopia and AEgypt, tells us,[A] [Greek:  Boskousi de kai thaeria hoia ouch heterothi; kai anthropous melanas, ho mae allai aepeiroi.  Pygmaion te en autais ethnae kai hylaktounton allo allaei.] i.e. Here are bred wild Beasts that are not in other places; and black Men, which no other Country affords:  and amongst them is the Nation of the Pygmies, and the BARKERS, that is, the Cynocephali. For tho’ Philostratus is pleased here only to call them Barkers, and to reckon them, as he does the Black Men and the Pygmies amongst the wild Beasts of those Countreys; yet Ctesias, from whom Philostratus has borrowed a great deal of his Natural History, stiles them Men, and makes them speak, and to perform most notable Feats in Merchandising.  But not being in a merry Humour it may be now, before he was aware, he speaks Truth:  For Caelius Rhodiginus’s[B] Character of him is, Philostratus omnium qui unquam Historiam conscripserunt, mendacissimus.

[Footnote A:  Philostratus in vita Apollon.  Tyanaei, lib. 6. cap. 1. p.m. 258.]

[Footnote B:  Caelij Rhodigini Lection.  Antiq. lib. 17. cap. 13.]

Since the Pygmies therefore are some of the Brute Beasts that naturally breed in these Countries, and they are pleased to let us know as much, I can easily excuse them a Name. [Greek:  Andres agrioi], or Orang-Outang, is alike to me; and I am better pleased with Homer’s [Greek:  andres pygmaioi], than if he had called [Greek:  pithaekoi].  Had this been the only Instance where they had misapplied the Name of Man, methinks I could be so good natur’d, as in some measure to make an Apology for them.  But finding them, so extravagantly loose, so wretchedly whimsical, in abusing the Dignity of Mankind, by giving the name of Man to such monstrous Productions of their idle Imaginations, as the Indian Historians have done, I do not wonder that wise Men have suspected all that comes out of their Mint, to be false and counterfeit.

Such are their [Greek:  Amykteres] or [Greek:  Arrines], that want Noses, and have only two holes above their Mouth; they eat all things, but they must be raw; they are short lived; the upper part of their Mouths is very prominent.  The [Greek:  Enotokeitai], whose Ears reach down to their Heels, on which they lye and sleep.  The [Greek:  Astomoi], that have no Mouths, a civil sort of People, that dwell about the Head of the Ganges; and live upon smelling to boil’d Meats and the Odours of Fruits and Flowers; they can bear no ill scent, and therefore can’t live in a Camp.  The [Greek:  Monommatoi] or [Greek:  Monophthalmoi], that have but one Eye, and that in the middle of their Foreheads:  they have Dog’s Ears; their Hair stands an end, but smooth on the Breasts.  The [Greek:  Sternophthalmoi],