BOOK VI. xxxiv. i76-xx\-A\ 179 



Juba also speaks of some tribes of Cave-dwellers 

 called tlie Jackal-liunters, because of their skill 

 in hunting, who are remarkable for their s^\iftness, 

 and also of the Fish-eaters, who can s^nm Uke 

 creatures of the sea ; also the Bangeni, Zangenae, 

 Thahbae, Saxinae, Sirecae, Daremae and Doma- 

 zenes. Juba states moreover that the people 

 inhabiting the banks of the Nile from Syene as far 

 as Meroe are not Ethiopian but Arabian tribes and 

 also that the City of the Sun, which in our description 

 of Egypt we spoke of as not far from Mcmphis, had v. ci. 

 Arab founders. The further bank also is by some 

 authorities taken away from Ethiopia and attached 

 to Africa. (But they lived on the banks for the sake 

 of the water.") We however shall leave this point 

 to the reader to form his own opinion on it, and shall 

 enumerate the towns on either bank in the order 

 in which they are reported, starting from Syene. 



XXXV. And taking the Arabian side of the Nile EtMopia 

 first, we have the Catadupi tribe, and then the Syeni- ''^;^'?'^ 

 tae, and the towns of Tacompson (which some have MeroL 

 callcd Thalice), Aramum, Sesamos, Andura, Nasar- 

 duma, Aindoma \'illage with Arabeta and Bongiana, 

 Leuphitorga, Tautarene, Meae, Chindita, Noa, Gop- 

 loa, Gistate, Megada, Lea, Remni, Nups, Direa, Pa- 

 tinga, Bagada, Dumana, Iladata (where a golden cat 

 iLsed to be worshipped as a god), Boron, and inland 

 Meroe, near Mallos. This is the account given by 

 Bion. Juba's is different : hes.iys that thereis aforti- 

 fied town called the Great Wall between Egypt and 

 Ethiopia, the Arabic name for wliich is Mirsios, and 

 then Tacompson, Aramum, Sesamos, Pide, Mamuda, 

 Corambis near a spring of mineral pitch, Amodota, 

 Prosda, Parenta, Mania, Tessata, Galles, Zoton, 



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