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all the commerce of these parts. Next come the Hemnatae, 

 the Aualitee, the towns of Domata and Hegra, the Tamudsei," 

 with the town of Badanatha, the Carrei, with the town of 

 Cariati,^ the Achoali, with the town of Foth, and the Minisi, 

 who derive their origin, it is supposed," from Minos, king of 

 Crete, and of whom the Carmsei are a tribe. Next comes a 

 town, fourteen miles distant, called Marippa, and belonging to 

 the Palamaces, a place by no means to be overlooked, and then 

 Carnon. The Rhadamaei also — these too are supposed to derive 

 their origin^ from Rhadamanthus, the brother of Minos — the 

 Homerit8e,°" with their city of Masala,^ the Hamirei, the Ged- 

 ranitae, the Amphp-ee, the Ilisanitse, the Bachilitae, the Sam- 

 naei, the Amitsei, with the towns of Nessa ^^ and Cennesseris, 

 the Zamareni, with the towns of Sagiatta and Canthaee, the 

 Bacascami, the town of Riphearma, the name by which they 

 call barley, the Autei, the Ethravi, the Cyrei and the Matha- 

 tsei, the Helmodenes, with the town of Ebode, the Agacturi, 

 dwelling in the mountains, with a town twenty miles distant, 

 in which is a fountain called .^nuscabales,^" which signifies 

 *' the town of the camels." Ampelome ^^ also, a Milesian 

 colony, the town of Athrida, the Calingii, whose city is called 

 Mariva,^- and signifies " the lord of all men ;" the towns of 

 Palon and Murannimal, near a river by which it is thought that 

 the Euphrates discharges itself, the nations of the Agrei and 

 the Ammonii, the town of Athenae, the Caunaravi, a name 



°3 Their district is still called Thamud, according to Ansart. 



^* Still called Cariatain, according to Ansart. 



^■' A ridiculous fancy, probably founded solely on the similarity of the 

 name. 



^ A story as probable, Hardouin observes, as that about the descendants 

 of Minos. 



^' The Arabs of Yemen, known in Oriental history by the name of 

 Himyari, were called by the Greeks Homeritre. 



^^ An inland city, called !Masthala by Ptolemy. 



59 Agatharchides speaks of a town on the sea coast, which was so called 

 from the multitude of ducks found there. The one here spoken of was in 

 the interior, and cannot be the same. 



6*^ Hardouin observes, that neither this word, nor the name Riphe- 

 arma, above mentioned, has either a Hebrew or an Arabian origin. 



61 Probably the same place as wc find spoken of by Herodotus as Ampe, 

 and at which Darius settled a colony of Miletians after the capture of 

 Miletus, B.C. 494. 



82 Hardouin remarks that Mariaba, the name found in former editions, 

 has no such meaniusr in the modern Arabic. 



