plentee of the lytylle folk: and it is a gret cytee; and a fair; and the men ben grete, that duellen amonges hem: but whan thei geten ony children, thei ben als litylle as the Pygmeyes: and therfore thei ben alle, for the moste part, alle Pygmeyes; for the nature of the lond is suche. The grete cane let kepe this cytee fulle wel: for it is his. And alle be it, that the Pygmeyes ben lytylle, yit thei ben fulle resonable, aftre here age, and connen bothen wytt, and gode and malice, ynow."[1]
"At the north poynt of Lewis [one of the Hebrides, or Western isles] there is a little ile callit The Pygmies ile, with ane little kirk in it of ther own handey-wark, within this kirk the ancients of that countrey of the Lewis says, that the said Pigmies has been cirdit thair. Maney men of divers countreys has delvit upe dieplie the flure of the litle kirke and i myselve, amanges the leave and hes found in it, deepe under the erthe, certain banes and round heads of wonderfull little quantity, allegit to be the banes of the said Pigmies, quhilk may be lykely, according to sundry historys that we reid of the Pigmies. but i leave this far of it to the ancients of Lewis."[2]
