teris, quidni ergo prodigiorum in novo
orbe avidi itineratores de iis quo-
que cogitassent cum revera proceros
et lacertosos homines turn etiam mi-
rae longitudinis sepulcra u) , et passim
pone ea singularis magnitudinis
ossa reperibant wj.
Aece*-
») cfr. Ed. Brown’s Travels p. m. 50. — l‘Mr.
„Wood,who has made very accurate maps
„ ofthe Jlreights o f Magellan fcfc. told me,
„ that he had seen divers graves in the'Sou-
„ them parts o f America near four Yards
i,long, which surprized him the more9
„ because he had never seen any American
vthat was two Yards high, and therefor
e he opened one o f these long sepulchres
tfrom one end to the other, and found
9,in it a man and a womatt, so placed,
,,that the woman s head lay at the man’s
fe e t, and so might reasonably require
Tomb of near that length.”
w) equorum scil. quorum sceleta prope sc-
pulcreta cognatorum erigunt. v. Falkner,
Beschreibung von Patagonien p. m. 149.
In universum vetustissimus 1110s, et
qui apud diversissimas gentes' invakut,
equos heroum simul cum horum funere
inhumandij postmodum errori ansam
prae-
Accederepoterat inHispanis con-.
Silium, ejusmodi relationibus alias
Europaeas gentes a navigatione per
fretum Magellanicüm deterrendi x ) ;
in bis vero tuin panicus terror , turn
jactandi libido, qualis et Currente
adbuc seculo auctorem belmcae nar-
r atio ms de Roggew einii periplo in-
duxit ut paschatis insulae in mari pa-
cibco incolas pro gigantibus duodecim
praebere potuit ut ista equina ossa prô
giganteis haberentur.
Ita v. e. in Sibiriciê vetustissimis sepiil-
eris equorum ossa inveniuntur: v. L G.
Gmelin, Keisen T . III. pag* 313.
Imo et in christianoriim equitum sar-
cophagis, medio quod vocant aevo in
templis sepultorum, praeter ipsorum sce-
letos et arma, equina quoque ossa passim
reperta sunt. v. Dorville, Sicula,
pag. 148*
* ) v*. Jo. Winter in Hakluyt’s collection
T . III. pag. 751.
it. Sir John Narborough’s voyage tö
the Streights of MageUan p. m. 90.
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