Ancient Pygmy Race in Egypt
Aristotle did not believe that the accounts of the pygmies were altogether false ; but thought that they were a tribe in Upper Egypt, who lived in holes under the earth, had exceedingly small horses, and came out in the harvest -time with hatchets to cut down the corn as if to fell a forest. They went on goats and lambs of a stature proportional to themselves, to make war against the cranes, which came yearly from Scythia to plunder them. They were originally governed by a princess, who was changed into a crane for boasting that she was fairer than Juno.
Aristotle did not believe that the accounts of the pygmies were altogether false ; but thought that they were a tribe in Upper Egypt, who lived in holes under the earth, had exceedingly small horses, and came out in the harvest -time with hatchets to cut down the corn as if to fell a forest. They went on goats and lambs of a stature proportional to themselves, to make war against the cranes, which came yearly from Scythia to plunder them. They were originally governed by a princess, who was changed into a crane for boasting that she was fairer than Juno.
