Hayton, a king of Lesser Armenia, reports that beyond Cathay are to be found "men like great hairy dogs, and women endowed with reason."
--Freya Stark, writing on what the Romans knew about Asia
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- John Bedell is an archaeologist, historian, and father of five living in Maryland. He has self-published two novels and is writing a third.
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