Note 1 — CAP. LXXXIX.

: Pliny (book 7, cap. 2) says: "At the very extremity of India, on the eastern side, near the source of the River Ganges, there is the nation of the Astonei, a people who have no mouths; their bodies are rough and hairy, and they cover themselves with a down plucked from the leaves of trees (probably cotton). These people subsist only by breathing and by the odours which they inhale through the nostrils. They support themselves upon neither meat nor drink: when they go upon a long journey they only carry with them various oderiferous roots & flowers, and wild apples, that they may not be without something to smell at. But an odour which is a little more powerful than usual easily destroys them."