Ancient Legend of Pygmy Race in Ethiopia and India
Among the many vulgar errors which have originated in a love of the marvelous, and circulated about the world, is the belief in the existence of a nation of pigmies. In ancient mythology the Pygmy were a fabulous body of dwarfs, who descended from Pygmfflus, a son of Dorus, and grandson of Epaphus. They lived in the extremest parts of India, or, according to some writers, in Ethiopia. Homer says that they had every spring to sustain a war against the cranes on the banks of Oceanus. Some authors say that they were no more than one foot high, and that they built their houses with egg shells.
Among the many vulgar errors which have originated in a love of the marvelous, and circulated about the world, is the belief in the existence of a nation of pigmies. In ancient mythology the Pygmy were a fabulous body of dwarfs, who descended from Pygmfflus, a son of Dorus, and grandson of Epaphus. They lived in the extremest parts of India, or, according to some writers, in Ethiopia. Homer says that they had every spring to sustain a war against the cranes on the banks of Oceanus. Some authors say that they were no more than one foot high, and that they built their houses with egg shells.
