Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c8.s2.14

c8.s2.14

(Pliny’s “Satyrs,” N.H. VII. 2, are apes. His Στρουθόποδες, women—not men—with ‘sparrow feet,’ must be the Chinese. The early age of marriage and child-bearing in India gave rise to stories of women who conceive at five years old. The jungle-folk called Choromandae, who have no language, etc., are merely aboriginal tribes.)