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- Beyond the A s t o m i, in the remotest pari
of the monntaias, the Trispithami and the Pygmies are said to hare their abode. They are each three spans in height — that is, not more than seven-and- twenty inches. Their climate is aalubrions and they enjoy a perpetual springs under shelter of a barrier of mountains which rise t>n the north. They are the same whom Homer mentions as being harassed by the attacks of the cramps. *The story about them is — that mounted on the backs of rams and goats, and equipped with arrows, they march down in lEipring-time all in a body to the sea, and destroy the eggs and the young of these birds. It takes them always three months to finish this yearly campaign, and were it not undertaken they could not defend themselves against the vast flocks of subsequent years . Their huts are made of clay and feathers and egg-shells. [Aristotle says that they live in caves, but otherwise ho gives the same account of them as others.]. . . . [*ft FromKt^sias we learn that there is a people belonging to this race, which is called P a n d o- r e and settled in the valleys, who live two hun- dred years, having in youth hoary hair, which in old age turns black. On the other hand, others do not live beyond the age of forty, — nearly related to the Macrobii, whose women bear offspring but once. Agatharchides says the same of them, adding that they subsist on locusts, and are swift of foot. ] * Clitarchns and
