104 rLTNY's NATURAL HISTORY. [Book VI. 



distant five days' journey from the (Ecalices, the Usibalci, the 

 Isbeli, the Perusii, the Ballii, and the Cispii, the rest being 

 deserts, and inhabited by the tribes of fable only. In a more 

 westerly direction are the Nigroae, whose king has only one eye, 

 and that in the forehead, the Agriophagi, 43 who live principally 

 on the flesh of panthers and lions, the Pamphagi, 44 who will eat 

 anything, the Anthropophagi, who live on human flesh, the Cy- 

 namolgi, 45 a people with the heads of dogs, the Artabatitae, who 

 have four feet, and wander about after the manner of wild 

 beasts ; and, after them, the Hesperiae and the Perorsi, whom we 

 have already spoken 46 of as dwelling on the confines of Mauri- 

 tania. Some tribes, too, of the ^Ethiopians subsist on nothing 

 but locusts, 47 which are smoke-dried and salted as their 

 provision for the year ; these people do not live beyond their 

 fortieth year. 



M. Agrippa was of opinion that the length 47 * of the whole 

 country of the ^Ethiopians, including the Bed Sea, was two 

 thousand one hundred and seventy miles, and its breadth, 

 including Upper Egypt, twelve hundred and ninety- seven. 

 Some authors again have made the following divisions of its 

 length ; from Meroe to Sirbitum eleven days' sail, from Sir- 

 bitum to the Dabelli fifteen days', and from them to the ^Ethi- 

 opian Ocean six days' journey. It is agreed by most authors, 

 that the distance altogether, from the ocean 48 to Meroe, is six 

 hundred and twenty-five miles, and from Meroe to Syene, 

 that which we have already mentioned. ^Ethiopia lies from 

 south-east to south-west. Situate as it is, in a southern 

 hemisphere, forests of ebojiy are to be seen of the brightest 

 verdure ; and in the midst of these regions there is a moun- 

 tain of immense height, which overhangs the sea, and emits a 

 perpetual flame. By the Greeks this mountain is called 

 Theon Ochema, 49 and at a distance of four days' sail from it 



43 So called from the Greek" Eaters of wild beasts." 



44 The " all-eaters." 



45 Or the " livers on the milk of the dog." 

 16 In c. 8 of the preceding Book. 



47 They were thence called by the Greeks " Acridophagi." According 

 to Agatharchides, these people dwelt in what is modern Nuhia, where 

 Burkhardt found the people subsisting on lizards. 



4 '* Hardouin remarks, that the length is measured from south-east to 

 south-west ; and the hreadth from south to north. 



8 The supposed Southern Ocean, which joins the Atlantic on the west. 



49 Or the " Chariot of the gods," mentioned also in Book ii. c. 110, and 



