but one eye, one cheek, one hand, one leg, half a body,
and half a heart. And they say, in a very loud tone:

"We live quite at our ease in our halves of houses with our halves of
wives and our halves of children."

_The Blemmyes_, absolutely bereft of heads--

"Our shoulders are the largest;--and there is not an ox, a rhinoceros,
or an elephant that is capable of carrying what we carry.

"Arrows, and a sort of vague outline are imprinted on our breasts--that
is all! We reduce digestion to thought; we subtilise secretions. For us
God floats peacefully in the internal chyle.

"We proceed straight on our way, passing through every mire, running
along the verge of every abyss; and we are the most industrious, happy,
and virtuous people."

_The Pygmies_--"Little good-fellows, we swarm over the world, like
vermin on the hump of a dromedary.

"We are burnt, drowned, or run over; but we always reappear more full of
life and more numerous--terrible from the multitude of us that exists!"

_The Sciapodes_--"Kept on the ground by our flowing locks, long as
creeping plants, we vegetate under the shelter of our feet, which are as
large as parasols; and the light reaches us through the spaces between
our wide heels. No disorder and no toil! To keep the head as low as
possible--that is the secret of happiness!"

Their lifted thighs, resembling trunks of trees, increase in number. And
now a forest appears in which huge apes rush along on four paws. They
are men with dogs' heads.

_The Cynocephali_--"We leap from branch to branch to suck the eggs, and
we pluck the little birds; then we put their nests upon our heads after
the fashion of caps.

"We do not fail to snatch away the worst of the cows, and we destroy the
lynxes' eyes. Tearing the flowers, crushing the fruits, agitating the
springs, we are the masters--by the strength of our arms and the
fierceness of our hearts.

"Be bold, comrades, and snap your jaws!"

Blood and milk flow from their lips. The rain streams over their hairy
backs.

Antony inhales the freshness of green leaves which are agitated as the
branches of the trees dash against each other. All at once appears a
large black stag with a bull's head, carrying between his two ears a
mass of white horns.

_The Sadhuzag_--"My seventy-four antlers are hollow like flutes. When I
turn myself towards the south wind, sounds go forth from them that draw
around me the ravished beasts. The serpents come winding t