William
Evans, who served Charles I, was nearly 8 feet; he carried a
dwarf in his pocket.
In the seventeenth century, in order to gratify the Empress of
Austria, Guy-Patin made a congress of all the giants and dwarfs
in the Germanic Empire. A peculiarity of this congress was that
the giants complained to the authorities that the dwarfs teased
them in such a manner as to make their lives miserable.
Plater speaks of a girl in Basle, Switzerland, five years old,
whose body was as large as that of a full-grown woman and who
weighed when a year old as much as a bushel of wheat. He also
mentions a man living in 1613, 9 feet high, whose hand was 1 foot
6 inches long. Peter van den Broecke speaks of a Congo negro in
1640 who was 8 feet high. Daniel, the porter of Cromwell, was 7
feet 6 inches high; he became a lunatic.
Frazier speaks of Chilian giants 9 feet tall. There is a
chronicle which says one of the Kings of Norway was 8 feet high.
Merula says that in 1538 he saw in France a Flemish man over 9
feet. Keysler mentions seeing Hans Brau in Tyrol in 1550, and
says that he was nearly 12 feet high.
Jonston mentions a lad in Holland who was 8 feet tall. Pasumot
mentions a giant of 8 feet.
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