BOOK VI. xxxiii. 168-XXXIV. 171 



as far as Myoshormos,'* whcre is the spring of Ainos, 

 Mount Eos, lambe Island, a number of harboxirs, 

 the town of Berenice * named from the mother of 

 Philadelphus, the road to which from Coptus \ve have § 103. 

 described, and the Arab tribes of the Autaei and 

 Gebadaei. XXXIV. Cave-dwellers' country, called Trogodyuce 

 in former times Midoe and by other people Mi- 

 dioe, Mount Five-fingers, some islands called the 

 Narrow Necks, the Halonesi about the same in 

 number, Cardamine, and Topazos,'^ which has given 

 its name to the precious stone. A bay crowded 

 with islands, of which the ones called the Islands of 

 Matreos have springs on them and those called 

 Erato's Islands are dry ; these islands formerly 

 had govemors appointed by the Idngs. Inland are 

 the Candaei, who are called the Ophiophagi because 

 it is their habit to eat snakes, of which the district 

 is exceptionally productive. Juba, who appears to 

 have investigated these matters extremely carefully, 

 has omitted to mention in this district (unless there 

 is an error in the copies of his work) a second town 

 called Berenice which has the additional name of 

 All-golden,<^ and a third called Berenice on the Neck, 

 which is remarkable for its situation, being placed on 

 a neck of land projecting a long way out, where the 

 straits at the mouth of the Red Sea separate Africa 

 from Arabia by a space of only 7^ miles. Here is 

 the island of Cytis, which itself also produces the 

 chrysolite. Beyond there are forests, in which is 

 Ptolemais, built by Ptolemy Philadelphus for the 

 purpose of elephant-hunting and consequently 

 called Ptolemy's Hunting Lodge ; it is close to 

 Lake Monoleus. This is the district referred to by 

 us in Book II, in which during the 45 days before 11. 8S, 



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