NUM 
The limits and extent of the Regio Maffefylorum of 
Strabo, or the Mauritania elas fis of ai ng the 
a and Am re afcer- 
fe 
cept in tha 
Maffyli. 
extended from 1 
u 
Ganugus, Cartenisy a Quiza, Siga, Sitifi and 
Satafi, Auzia or Tubufuptus, &c. &c. h 
promontories were the Dales and Vabat of Ptolemy, the 
promontorium Apollinis, or cape Ey: nne: n geo- 
graphers, the promontorium Magnu 
one, 
were te rere the Sifaris, the Niffava, or prefent Boujeiah, 
the Sarbatis, now the Yffer, the Savus or modern Hameefe, 
the Chinalaph of Ptolemy or Shelliff of the Algerines, 
the Cartennes, the Flumen Salfum, at prefent called the 
‘Wed el Mailah, and Affara or Iffer of Abulfeda. The 
only iflands that deferve attention are the Acra of Scylax, 
forming the modern part of Harfhgoone, and the Tres In- 
fule of Antoninus, about 10 miles N.W. of the river Mu- 
lucha. 
The aborigines of Numidia were the defcendants of 
Put or Phut; oe thefe were not the only ancient inha- 
i he Pheenicians in almoft the earlieft ages 
fent colonies ‘hither. Although a confiderable part, if not 
the whole, of Interior Numidia was independent on the 
Carthaginians, the Numidians always affifted the Carthagi- 
nians in their wars ; = : Carthaginian form of govern- 
o tribes, nomes, or hordes ; 
r dou-wars were compofed of their mapalia, 
riaiiie ag to the hhymas or tents of the modern Be- 
dow: Thefe mapalia were fecured from the heat and in- 
cen of the weather by a covering of hair-cloth. The 
were all of the fame oblong form, refembling the inverted 
bottom of a fhip. A whole tribe encamped together, and 
Ravine conlanie! the produce of one fruitful {pot, migrated 
to another. Some of them lived in fixed habitations or 
cottages, made of hoeales daubed over with mud, or con- 
ftrudted of flight materials, and thefe they called magaria. 
The towns or villages formed of pe di: are at ari 
built upon eminences, and, informs us, 
are called dafhkras. The Numidiane ae without faddles, 
5 
NUM 
in war: and they chofe 
night. Amongft them defertion was no io race 
Before the firit arrival of the Phenicians, Numidia was 
a 
"finifls, » was is infulted 
adhered clofely to the Pomp ian faction, gaine e ad- 
antage over o efar’s lieutenants, and reduced Cefar 
himfelf to great extremities len Cefar overthrew 
cipio, Juba, bienus, and by a decifive aétion made 
himfelf matter of pn idia, which he reduced to a Roman 
at See RITANI 
Numipia, Binado, in Ornithology, a genus of birds of 
the en Gallin he generic charaGter is this; the, 
bill is ftrong and hoe the bafe of it covered with a carun+ 
culate cere receiving the noftrils; the head is horned, with 
a compreffed coloured callus; tail fhort, bending down; 
the body is fpeckled. There are four {pecies comprehended 
in this genus, of which the moft ie is the Meleagris ; 
we fhall, however, defcribe them a 
i 
Me eacnris; the Guinea Hen are ee varieties 
of this {pecies. In the jir/, 
tu 
in continual apprehenfion from its petulance. 
this genus feem in many refpedts to refemble the common 
poultry. Like them, oe {cratch the ground, and go in 
large flocks, feeding their young and pointing out their 
food. In the Cape de Verde iflands feveral hundreds are 
fometimes feen together; here the inhabitants hunt them 
with dogs; and, as their flight is he 
run down they are eafily killed or caught. 
female fo nearly refemble each other, that they can hardly 
be diftinguifhed; the only difference is, that the wattles, 
which- are blue in the former, are inclining to red in the 
latter. Pintados, as has been obferved, were originally from 
Africa, and were known under the name of: Numidian 
hens. 
