for his strange conduct, he explained as follows: son you see before you,"
time he had walked out upon the lawn, "is from the country of the long-armed people. You observe his stature, which I think you Togue is about 30 feet, while his arms reach from his shoulders to the ground. 'They were discovered in the following. way..On one occasion, when a company of explorers were passing through the country which borders on the eastern sea near where the sun daily appears from beneath the horizon, they quired of an old' man if he knew whether or/mot there' were people dwelling beyond the waters. He te-plied that a cloth garment in fashion and texture not unlike that of a Chinese'coat, with sleeves 30 feet in length, had once been found in the sea, which led to the fitting out of Jan expedition and the discovery of the Long-armed Country.
"The people of this country subsist for the most part on-fish which they obtain by wading about in. the water, as you have: just seen him doing, and taking the fish with their hands instead of with hooks or with seine. It is for this reason that the pond has been prepared, that their environment here may be as possible to that of their own native land."
'As my guide ceased speaking, the companion of the' long-armed. man: waded out of the water where he had been fishing in his peculiar way, and Tobserved that while his arms were of a-length natural to the human species, his legs had developed to' length corresponding to that of the arms of his associate, T learned on inquiry that the country of the long-legged people, of which he was a subject, borders' om that of the long-armed, and that the habits of the two are very similar, their diet consisting largely of Sh, Which they take in the way already described, while the difference. in their" physical structure makes them of mutual assistance, those with the Tong arms being able to take the shellfish and others of the shallow water, while those with the long lox take "the surface fish from the deeper localities, and the obtain a hazyest otherwise unavailable, "We have here two specimens," he continued as we passed on to the tate of the adjacent court, "whose environments will indicate' what I
In our further passage about the Jgardens I beheld many peculiar specimens of what I could not but regard as human beings, quite un-
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