PRODUCED BY MAN. 833 



Nillson^ has averred to be eminently characteristic of savages. 

 I subjoin the entire passage, iv. 17^^ for several reasons, in the 

 original Greek ; and I submit that a people who embodied so much 

 of wild life in their social condition, could have learnt little from 

 any of the nations to the east of them, whether Egyptian, Arabian, 

 Assyrian, or Persian. But as regards their dealing with the date- 

 palms, we have this remarkable statement made by Herodotus, iv. 

 17:^ and 186: 'In the summer they leave their flocks by the sea- 

 side, and go up to the district Augila, to get in the harvest of the 

 date-palms which grow there in great abundance, and are of great 

 size, all being fruit-bearing.' Now Herodotus, and, as he tells us, 

 i. 193, the Greeks of his time generally, were acquainted with the 

 bisexual dioecious character of the palm and the fig ; that the Baby- 

 lonians used artificial means for securing the impregnation of 

 the pistilliferous trees he tells us in loco ; and we know that those 

 latter were, as they are (see Kaempfer, 1. c. p. 67a) still, to be 

 found in Persia as they are (see Martins, 1. c. p. 264) still in Egypt. 

 Some considerable weight, therefore, may fairly be assigned to his 

 statement, iv. 17:2, to the effect that at Augila (as also probably, 

 see iv. 183, in the country of the Garamantes) there were none but 



^ 'Early Inhabitants of Scandinavia,' Eng. Trans, ed. Lubbock, p. 167: 'Aristocracy 

 is strongly developed amongst all savage nations.' 



^ As regards the size of the Fezzan dates, the dates of the Garamantes referred to 

 by Herodotus, iv. 183, as living ten days' journey from Augila westwards, and as 

 having (poiviKfs Kapirotpopoi ttoWoI naTairep Kal kv roicri ertpoiai, we have the following 

 information from Dr. Ed. Vogel, cit. Seemann, 1. c. pp. 285, 286 : ' The largest date of 

 Fezzan (which is also the best) is 2i| Parisian lines and 10 in diameter, the smallest 

 7| by 5.' Lyon, in his ' Narrative of Travels in North Africa,' 1821, p. 72, tells us, 

 • the dates of Sockan in Fezzan are of a quality far superior to any produced in the 

 north of Africa.' Herodotus, iv. 172 : Av(Tx^(t4ojv Si tovtoiv rb npds kanepTjs ex^^"^^ 

 tHaaanZves, edvos kbu troXKov 0* to Oepos KaTdkHtrovTiS km tt; Oakdffar) rd irp60aTaf 

 avafiaivovai h AvyiXa x&pov, dvcupifvvres tovs <poiviKar ol S^ iroWol leal dfi<pi\a(p4et 

 v€(pvKaai, it&VTi^ kovTis KapTro(p6por rovs 5i drTekefiovs iiredv Oijpfvaojffi, av^vavr fs vphs 

 rov riKiov KaraXeovai, Kal eireiTa kirl ydXa kmirdaffovTes mvovai. yvvaTms 5i vopiCovTfs 

 iroWds ex**!/ tKaaros kmKoivov avreoov iroifOvrai TT^f pi^iv Tpoiicp vapanKrja'Kp t^ Kal 

 Maaaayerai, kirtdv ffKiircova irpoarfjaavTai fihyovTai. itpwrov 5^ yafieovTos Uaaa^vos 

 dvSp6s vofios kffTi TTjv vvfi(pr]v vvktI ttj vpdjTr} Sid trdvTav dK^ekOfiv twv Sanvp^voiv 

 fiiffyofxivrjv rwv S' ws (KaOTus oi fJiix^^f ^'^o? dupov to &v (XV <pfp6p.evos k^ oikov. 

 'OpKioim Sk Kal jxavTiK^ x/'«*""'«t roiriSt. 'Ofivvovai filv tovs irapd a<piaiv avZpas 8t- 

 KaiOTaTovs Kal upiffTOvs \eyo/x4vovs yeveaOai, tovtovs, twv tvix^oiv dnTufitvoi. Mav- 

 Tfvovrai Si k-nl twv irpoyovuv (poireovTes to o-qixara, Kal Karev^dfifvoi kmKaTaKOini(uvTai' 

 TO S' dv tSri kv ttj orpei (vvnviov, TOVTtp XP9''"'- ^^<J^^<^i- ^^ roijfaiSf XP**"^^*" ^^ ^^» 

 Xupbs SiSol meiv,' Koi aiT^s kK ttjs tov iTepov irivw Ijv Si n^ ixoxri vypbv uriSiv, oH^ 

 T^s xafttt^f '' ffiroSov \aP6vTes Xiixovai. 



3H 



