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traces of footsteps : by the route ^vhich begins two miles be- 

 yond Mount Casius, and at a distance of sixty miles enters the 

 road from Pelusium, adjoining to which road the Arabian 

 tribe of the Autei dwell ; or else by a third route, which 

 leads fi'om Gerrum, and which they call Adipsos,^ passing 

 through the same Arabians, and shorter by nearly sixty miles, 

 but running over rugged mountains and through a district 

 destitute of water. All these roads lead to Arsinoe,^^ a city 

 founded in honour of his sister's name, upon the Gulf of Ca- 

 randra, by Ptolemy Philadelphus, who was the first to explore 

 Troglodytice, and called the river which flows before Arsinoe 

 by the name of Ptolemseus. After this comes the little town 

 of Enum, by some writers mentioned as Philotera ; next to 

 which are the Abasaei, a nation sprung from intermarriages 

 with the Troglodytse, then some wild Arabian tribes, the islands 

 of Sapirine and Scytala, and after these, deserts as far as 

 Myoshormon, where we find the fountain of Tatnos, Mount 

 ^as, the island of lambe, and numerous harbours. Berenice 

 also, is here situate, so called after the name of the mother of 

 Philadelphus, and to which there is a road from Coptos, as we 

 have previously stated ;*- then the Arabian Autei, and the Ze- 

 badei. 



CHAP. 34. TROGLODYTICE. 



Troglodytice comes next, by the ancients called Midoe, and 

 by some Michoe ; here is Mount Pentedactylos, some islands 

 called Stenae Deirse,*^ the Halonnesi,^ a group of islands 

 not less in number, Cardamine, and Topazos,^ which last has 

 given its name to the precious stone so called. The gulf is 

 full of islands ; those known as Mareu are supplied with 

 fresh water, those called Erenos, are without it ; these were 

 ruled by governors^ appointed by the kings. In the interior 



^ The "not thirsty" route, so called by way of autiphrasis. 



81 See B. V. c. 9. 



8- In c. 26 of the present Book. 



^ Or "narrow necks," apparently, from the Greek (rrijvat hipnl. If 

 this be the correct reading, they were probably so called from the narrow 

 strait which ran between them. 



^ An island called Halonnesus has been already mentioned in B, It. 

 c. 23. Xone of these islands appear to have been identified. 



^5 See B. sxxYii. c. 32. 



^ This seems to be the meaning, though, literally translated, it would 

 be, " These were the prefects of kings." 



