Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-11-26

sleep he needs. Normally he passes a large
part Of the time in slumber, and has been
known to sleep twenty-four hours Even
when awake his movements are slow and
deliberate, and he is inclined to doze off
when left alone, the only stimulus to ex-
ertion being the cravings of hunger which
are said to be acute"
Biblical and classical writer's tell us that
in the early history of the world men Of
prodlgious size and proportions lived, not
slngy or in small groups, but as nations;
the earliest record being found in the book
of Genesis, where it is said, There were
giants in those days" meaning before the
food.
In view of the gigantic size Of extinct
mammoths that roamed the earth in pre-
historic times. of which we have every
proof in the mounted skeletons in our
museums, it does not seem unreasonable
to suppose that men attained the height
Of ten, twelve and even fifteen feet, but to
believe that they exceeded that by hum
dreds Of feet, as recorded and believed by
Plutarch, Pliny and other classical writer's,
seems absurd. Thus we are told that the
giant Polyphemus, measuring 300 feet in
length, was found at Trapan, Sicily in the
fourteenth century, where others Of equal
length were subsequently exhumeG. Plu-
tarch says the grave of Antmus, in the city
Of fungus, was opened by Serboneus, "and
finding there his body full sixty cubits
long, he was infinitely astonished and or
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firmation to the story and added new
honors to the memory of this giant"
Passing giant whose bones were ex-
posed by the action of the Rhone in 1856"
says one writer, "and whose height was
estimated at thirty feet, and another whose
skeleton was eXhumed at Lucerne in 1877,
who, according to the learned physician
Platter, did not exceed nineteen feet, we
come to the case Of King Teucobochus
whose remains were found in 1918 by
surgeon named Masurfer whose HiStotre
Peritable dW Geant TeHcobochuS Q61S)
gave rise to a warm controversy" The
tomb, which bore the inscription, "Teuco-
bochus Rex" is said to have been thirty
feet long.
Pliny, the celebrated Roman author and
naturalist relates that an earthquake un-
covered the skeleton of a man forty cubits
long, believed by some to be the skeleton
Orion, while others held it to be that Of
TITUS.
In 1712 Mather, in the Philosophical
Transactions, announced the discovery Of
enormous bones and teeth in the state of
New York, which he regarded az affording
evidence of the existence of giants on this
continent OF immense stature in ancient
times.
The races of giants described by JoN
sephus and Biblical writer's are known as
MINIS, whose bodies, according to Jo-
sephus, were so large and countenances
50 entirely different from other men that
they were surprising to the sight and ter
ribe to the hearing" u
The bones of giants who dwelt at
Hebron-the descendants of Anak--were
still in good preservation in his day, and
he says. "They were unlike any credible
relations of other men"
When Joshua sent the spies to search
out and view the land of Canaan they re-
turned with the report, saying: THE land
through which we have gone to search it
is land that eateth up the inhabitants
thereof; and all the men that we saw in
it were men of great stature. And there
we saw the giants; and some of Anak
which come Of the giants; and we were in
our own sights as grasshoppers and so we
were in their sight" They further de-
scrlbed their cities as walled and very
great" Numbers 13: 2S-33)
The Emims, another race of giants,
were a people great and many and tall as
the Anakims." These people dwelt in the
land of Ammon, which Lot took as a pos
session, being accounted a land of giants"
They were known among the Ammonites
and Zumzummins. (Deut. 2: 10, II, 20, 21)
The land of Bashan belonged to another
race of giants, their cities being fenced
with high walls, gates and bars, besides
unwalled towns a great many" (Deut. 8:
4, So
Some idea OF the gigantic stature of
these people may be obtained by the ac-
count of Og the King of Bashan in verse
2, whose "bedstead was a bedstead of iron
nine cubits was the length
thereof and four cubits the breadth of it,
after the cubit of a man"
DIR, Adam Clark says Allowing the bed
stead to have been one cubit longer than
Og, which is certainly sufficient, and allow
ing the cubit to have been about eighteen
inches long. for this is perhaps the average
Of man, then Og was twelve feet high.n
1t is not uncommon to discover both
human and mammoth skeletons in this
day, one of the most recent being that of
the skeleton of man who in life is sup
posed to have measured nine feet in
stature, this discovery having been made
by DR.. j. Holland curator OF Carnegie
Museum, Pittsburgh, during excavations
of mound about six miles southeast of
Greenburg, Pa.
Very little is said in the Bible about
dwarfs, except that they were forbidden to
be priests under the Levitical Law Iev,
xxi, 20), reference also being made to
Zaccheus, a rich man and collector of
tribute in Jericho Being small of stature,
and desirous to see Jesus, but could not