BOOK V. I. 8-IO 



the majority of the Greek and Roman writers have 

 followed in the accounts that they have pubUshed 

 of a number of cities founded by him there of which 

 no memory or trace exists, not to speak of other 

 fabulous stories. 



Scipio AemiHanus, during; his command in Africa," 

 placed a fleet of vessels at the service of the historian 

 Polybius for the purpose of niaking a voyage of dis- 

 covery in that part of the world. After saiUng round 

 the coast, Polybius reported that beyond Mount 

 Atlas in a westerly direction there are forests teem- 

 ing with the wild animals that Africa engenders. 

 Agrippa says that to the river Anatis* is a distance 

 of 496 miles, and from the Anatis to Lixus 205 

 miles ; that Lixus is 112 miles from the Straits 

 of Gibraltar and that then come the gulf called 

 Sagigi Bav, the town on Cape Mulelacha, the rivers 

 Sebou and Sallee, the port of Mazagan 224 miles 

 from Lixus, then Capo Blanco, the port of Safi, the 

 Gnetulian Free State, the river Tensift, the Velatili 

 and Masati tribes, the river Mogador, and the river 

 Sous, in which crocodiles are found. Then, he states, 

 a gulf 616 miles across is enclosetl by the promontory 

 of the Atlas chain projecting westward, callod Cape 

 Ger. After this the river Assa, beyond which is the 

 Aethiopian tribe of the Perorsi, and in their rear 

 the Pharusii. Adjoining these in the interior are 

 the GaetuUan Darae, and on the coast the Aethiopian 

 Daratitae and the river Non, which is full of croco- 

 diles and hippopotamuses. From the Non runs a 

 line of mountains extending right to the peak"^ of 

 which the Greek name is, as we shall state, the vi. 197. 

 Chariot of the (iods. The distance from this peak 

 to Cape Roxo he gives as a voyage of ten days and 



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