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thorga, Tantarene, Maechindira, Noa, Gophoa, Gystatae, Me- 

 geda, Lea, Rherania, Nupsia, Direa, Pataga, Bagada, Du- 

 mana, Rhadata, in which a Golden Cat is worshipped as a 

 God. Boron in the Midland part, and Mallos, the next 

 Town to Meroe. Thus hath Bion set them down. But 

 King Juba hath arranged them otherwise. Megatichos, a 

 Town on a Mountain between Egypt and Ethiopia, which 

 the Arabians call Myrson; next to it Tacompson, Aranium, 

 Sesanium, Pide, Mamuda, and Corambis ; near it a Fountain 

 of Bitumen : Hammodara, Prosda, Parenta, Mama, Thes- 

 sara, Gallae, Zoton, Graucome, Emeum, Pidibotae, Hebdo- 

 mecontacomertae, and the Nomades, who live in Tents. 

 Cyste, Pemma, Gadagale, Palois, Primmis, Nupsis, Daselis, 

 Patis, Gambrenes, Magases, Segasmala, Cranda, Denna, 

 Cadeuma, Thena, Batha, Alana, Macum, Scammos, and 

 Gora within a Island. Beyond these Abala, Androcalis, 

 Seres, Mallos, and Agoce. On the Side of Africa they are 

 reckoned in this way : another Tacompsos, with the same 

 Name or perhaps a part of the former: then, Magora, Sea, 

 Edosa, Pelenaria, Pyndis, Magusa, Bauma, Linitima, Spyn- 

 tuma, Sydopta, Gensoa, Pindicitora, Eugoa, Orsima, Suasa, 

 Mauma, Rhuma, Urbubuma, Mulona, which Town the 

 Greeks call Hypaton ; Pagoargas, Zamnes ; and there begin 

 the Elephants to come in; Mamblia, Berresa, Cetuma. 

 There was formerly a Town named Epis, overagainst Meroe, 

 but destroyed before Bion wrote. These were recorded until 

 you come to Meroe ; of which at this Day scarcely anything 

 is to be found on either side. The remainder is a Wilder- 

 ness, by report made to the Prince Nero by the Praetorian 

 Soldiers sent thither from him under the Command of a 

 Tribune, to make Discoveries : at the time when amongst 

 his other Wars, he thought of an Expedition against the 

 Ethiopians. But in the Days of Divus Augustus, the Roman 

 Arms penetrated thither under the conduct ofPublius Petro~ 

 nius, a Knight of Rome, and Prefect of Egypt. He con- 

 quered all those Towns in Ethiopia, which he found in this 

 order following; Pselcis, Primis, Aboccis, Phthuris, Can- 

 busis, Attena, Stadissis, where the River Nile casteth itself 



