Status Updates From Barbaric Others

Syclax reported that the huge quantities of gold available to the Indians came from giant anthills to be found in the northern deserts.His descriptions of people were even more fantastic;some Indians,he wrote,had such enormous feet they would lie on the ground and use them as an umbrella over their heads.The Indians in the extreme south, he reported, were cannibals.The great compendium make of this marker of..