travaile in them alone. Here are also two kinds of monsters, which are
common in these woods, and very dangerous.

[footnote] *'Purchas' note'.--Cape Negro is in 16 degrees
south of the line.

"The greatest of these two monsters is called Pongo in their language,
and the lesser is called Engeco. This Pongo is in all proportion like
a man; but that he is more like a giant in stature than a man; for he
is very tall, and hath a man's face, hollow-eyed, with long haire upon
his browes. His face and eares are without haire, and his hands also.
His bodie is full of haire, but not very thicke; and it is of a dunnish
colour.

"He differeth not from a man but in his legs; for they have no calfe.
Hee goeth alwaies upon his legs, and carrieth his hands clasped in the
nape of his necke when he goeth upon the ground. They sleepe in the
trees, and build shelters for the raine. They feed upon fruit that
they find in the woods, and upon nuts, for they eate no kind of flesh.
They cannot speake, and have no understanding more than a beast. The
people of the countrie, when they travaile in the woods make fires
where they sleepe in the night; and in the morning when they are gone,
the Pongoes will come and sit about the fire till it goeth out; for
they have no understanding to lay the wood together. They goe many
together and kill many negroes that travaile in the woods. Many times
they fall upon the elephants which come to feed where they be, and so
beate them with their clubbed fists, and pieces of wood, that they will
runne roaring away from them. Those Pongoes are never taken alive
because they are so strong, that ten men cannot hold one of them; but
yet they take many of their young ones with poisoned arrowes.