i.e. _Grues per
aestatem ex_ AEgypto _abscedentes, quia Calorem pati non possunt, alis
velorum instar expansis, per aerem ad_ Scythicam _plagam recta feruntur_.
Which fully confirms that Migration of the _Cranes_ that _Aristotle_
mentions.
[Footnote A: _Isaac Vossius de Nili aliorumque stuminum Origine_, Cap.
18.]
[Footnote B: _Aristophanes in Nubibus_.]
But _Vossius_ I find, tho' he will not allow the _Cranes_, yet upon second
Thoughts did admit of _Pygmies_ here: For this Story of the _Pygmies_ and
the _Cranes_ having made so much _noise_, he thinks there may be something
of truth in it; and then gives us his Conjecture, how that the _Pygmies_
may be those _Dwarfs_, that are to be met with beyond the Fountains of the
_Nile_; but that they do not fight _Cranes_ but _Elephants_, and kill a
great many of them, and drive a considerable Traffick for their teeth with
the _Jagi_, who sell them to those of _Congo_ and the _Portuguese_. I will
give you _Vossius's_ own words; _Attamen_ (saith[A] he) _ut solent fabellae
non de nihilo fingi & aliquod plerunque continent veri, id ipsum quoque
que hic factum esse existimo.
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