BOOK V. I. 15-18 



diet in common with the canine race and share ^vith 

 it the flesh of wUd aninials. 



It is well ascertained that the next people are 

 the Aetliiopian tribe called the Perorsi. Juba, thc 

 father of Ptolemy, -vvho was the first ruler to hold 

 sway over both the Mauretanias, and who is even 

 more distinguished for his renown as a student than 

 for his royal sovereignty, has published similar facts 

 about Mount Atlas, and has stated in addition that 

 a plant grows there called the euphorbia," named 

 after his doctor who discovered it ; in a volume 

 devoted solely to the subject of this plant* he sings 

 the praises of its milky juice in very remarkable 

 terras, stating it to be an aid to clear sight and 

 an antidote against snake-bite and poisons of all 

 kinds. — This is enough, or more than enough, about 

 Mount Atlas. 



The province of Tangier is 170 miles in length. NoTihcoam 

 It contains the following tribes : the Moors (from j^j^^J^"' 

 whom it takes its name of Mauretania), by many Aigfria. 

 writers called the Maurusii, wei-e formerly the lead- 

 ing race, but they have been thinned by wars and 

 are now reduced to a few famiHes. The next race 

 to this was previously that of the MasaesyH, but 

 this has been wiped out in a similar manner. The 

 country is now occupied by the GaetuHan tribes, the 

 Baiiiurae and the Free State, by far the most power- 

 ful of them all, and the Nesimi, who were formerly 

 a section of the Autoteles, but have spHt ofF from 

 them and formed a separate tribe of their own 

 in the direction of the Aethiopians. The province 

 itself produces elephants in its mountainous district 

 on the eastern side and also on Mount Ceuta and 

 the range of peaks called the Seven Brothers ^' from 



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