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island reached, a town of the Semberritae, gov- 

 erned by a queen, and another town named Asara ; 

 on the second island, the town of Darde ; the third 

 island is called Medoe, and the to^vn on it is Asel; 

 the fourth is Garroe, with a town of the same name. 

 Then along the banks are the towns of Nautis, Madum, 

 Demadatis," Secande, Navectabe with the territory 

 of Psegipta, Candragori, Araba, Summara. Above 

 is the region of Sirbitum, where the mountain range 

 ends, and which is stated by some WTiters to be 

 occupied by Ethiopian coast-tribes, the Nisicathae 

 and Nisitae, names that mean ' men with three ' 

 or ' "snth four eyes ' — not because they really are 

 hke that but because they have a particularly keen 

 sight in using arrows. On the side of the Nile that 

 stretches inland from the Greater SjTtes and the south- 

 ern ocean DaUon says there are the Vacathi, who use 

 only rain-water, the Cisori, the Logonpori five days' 

 joumey from the Oecahces, the Usibalchi, IsbeU, 

 Perusii, BalUi and Cispii ; and that all the rest of the 

 country is uninhabited. Then come regions that are 

 purely imaginary : towards the west ai-e the Nigroi , 

 whose king is said to have only one eye, in his fore- 

 head ; the Wild-beast-eaters, who Uve chiefly on the 

 flesh of panthers and Uons ; the Eatalls, who devour 

 everj-thing ; the Man-eaters, whose diet is human 

 flesh ; the Dog-milkers, who have dogs' heads ; the 

 Artabatitae,* who have four legs and rove about 

 Uke wild animals ; and then the Hesperioi, the 

 Perorsi and the people we have mentioned as in- v. 

 habiting the border of Mauretania. One section of 

 the Ethiopians Uve only on locusts, dried in smoke 

 and salted to keep for a year's supply of food; 

 these people do not Uve beyond the age of forty. 



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