Indians, are very just, excellent Archers, and that the King of India has Three thousand of them in his Guards.  All from Ctesias. 8.  Their Animals, as in Ctesias; and here are mentioned their Sheep, Oxen, Asses, Mules, and Horses. 9.  Their various Actions; as what Ctesias relates of their killing Hares and Foxes with Crows, Eagles, &c. and fighting the Cranes, as Homer, Pliny, Juvenal.

The seventh Chapter in Bartholine has a promising Title, An Pygmaei sint homines, and I expected here something more to our purpose; but I find he rather endeavours to answer the Reasons of those that would make them Apes, than to lay down any of his own to prove them Men.  And Albertus Magnus’s Opinion he thinks absurd, that makes them part Men part Beasts; they must be either one or the other, not a Medium between both; and to make out this, he gives us a large Quotation out of Cardan.  But Cardan[A] in the same place argues that they are not Men.  As to Suessanus[B] his Argument, that they want Reason, this he will not Grant; but if they use it less or more imperfectly than others (which yet, he saith, is not certain) by the same parity of Reason Children, the Boeotians, Cumani and Naturals may not be reckoned Men; and he thinks, what he has mentioned in the preceding Chapter out of Ctesias, &c. shews that they have no small use of Reason.  As to Suessanus’s next Argument, that they want Religion, Justice, &c. this, he saith, is not confirmed by any grave Writer; and if it was, yet it would not prove that they are not Men.  For this defect (he saith) might hence happen, because they are forced to live in Caves for fear of the Cranes; and others besides them, are herein faulty.  For this Opinion, that the Pygmies were Apes and not Men, he quotes likewise Benedictus Varchius,[C] and Joh.  Tinnulus,[D] and Paulus Jovius,[E] and several others of the Moderns, he tells us, are of the same mind. Imprimis Geographici quos non puduit in Mappis Geographicis loco Pygmaeorum simias cum Gruibus pugnantes ridicule dipinxisse.

[Footnote A:  Cardan. de Rerum varietate, lib. 8. cap. 40.]

[Footnote B:  Suessanus Comment. in Arist. de Histor.  Animal. lib. 8. cap. 12.]

[Footnote C:  Benedict.  Varchius de Monstris. lingua vernacula.]

[Footnote D:  Joh.  Tinnulus in Glotto-Chrysio.]

[Footnote E:  Paulus Jovius lib. de Muscovit.  Legalione.]