Part 47

Manilius, Senator, 184.

Manticora, the, 71, 72, 73, 74, 159.

Maphoon, a hairy woman, 49, 50.

Mappa Mundi, 7, 17.

Marcellinus, 134.

Marcellus, 131, 133, 134, 140, 144, 174.

Marco Polo, 5, 28, 100, 182, 249, 324, 325.

Maricomorion, the. See Manticora.

Marion, the. See Manticora.

Marius, 86.

Marsi, the tribe of, 11.

Martlet, the, 189, 190.

Mechovita, 102, 237.

Megasthenes, 14, 15, 16.

Meir, Rabbi, 167.

Men, tailed, 4, 5, 17; one-eyed, 8, 18; with legs reversed, 9; with sea-green eyes, 10, 15; with white hair, 10, 14, 16; eat every other day, 10; those whose touch cures the sting of serpents, 10; saliva cures ditto, 10; testing the fidelity of wives by means of serpents, 11; possessing both sexes, 11; families of enchanters, 11; with the power of fascination in their eyes, 12; with two pupils in each eye, 12; whose bodies will not sink in water, 12; whose perspiration causes consumption, 12; the glance of women with double pupils in their eyes is noxious, 12; Indians never expectorate, and are subject to no pains, 13; Men eight feet high, 13, 16; with feet turned backwards, and eight toes, 14; with heads of dogs, 14; Women only pregnant once in their lives, 14, 16; Men with one leg, 14, 20; whose feet shade them from the sun, 14, 20; without necks, and eyes in their shoulders, 14, 19; large and small feet, 15; with holes in their faces instead of nostrils, and flexible feet, 15; with no mouths, who subsist by smell, 15; who live 400 years, 15; living on vipers, 16; with no shadow, 16; live to 130 years and never seem to get old, 16; who live 200 years, 16; do not live over 40 years, 16; who live on locusts, 16; Women bear children at seven years of age, 16; Women conceive at five years of age and die in their eighth year, 17; Men with ears which cover their bodies, 17; twelve feet high, 17; live on baboon’s milk, 17; green and yellow, 18; Men eating each other, 18; without eyes or nose, 19; with mouths in their shoulders, 19; cover their faces with their lips, 19; Dwarfs with no mouth, 19; with ears to their shoulders, 19; with horses’ feet, 19; go on all fours, 19; go on their knees, 19; live by the smell of wild apples, 19; covered with feathers, 20; Elephant-headed men, 20; feed on serpents and lizards, 21; Amazons, 23, 24, 25, 26; Pygmies, 26; their height, 28; Early men, 38; their skulls, 38; the Stone Age, 38; Bronze and Iron Ages, 39; Palæolithic remains in caves, 39; the Lake men, 39; early mention of them, 39; their food, 41; Kitchen middens, 41; their wide range, 41; Shell-fish middens in Tierra del Fuego, 42, 43; Danish middens, 44; Wild men, 41; Ancient Britons, 46, 47; Hairy men, 47, 49, 50, 51; Julia Pastrana, 47; Puella pilosa of Aldrovandus, 47, 48; Hairy people at Ava, 49, 50; the Aïnos of Japan, 50, 51; Moon Woman, 180.

Menippus, 74, 75, 76, 152.

Menismini, who live on baboon’s milk, 17.

Mentor, 158.

Mercuriall, 320.

Mermen and Mermaids, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214.

Meryx, the, 253.

Midas, 58.

Milo, Titus Annius, 251.

Milroy, General, 30.

Milton, 8, 218.

Mimick Dog, the, 150, 151.

Mirage, 17.