A river, on the banks of which are a people whose heads grow
beneath their shoulders. Their eyes are in their shoulders, and their
mouths in the middle of their breasts. (Hakluyt: Voyages, 1598.)
Raleigh, in his Description of Guiana, gives a similar account
of a race of men. (See Blemmyes.)
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