SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
CHAPTER I. 
INTEODTJCTOTIY EEMABKS. 
The oldest derivation for the name u Africa " 
that is extant, is that of Bochart, who takes it 
to Pnnic orgin, from a word signifying "an 
ear of corn/' with a supposed reference to the 
fertility of those parts of this continent, which 
were known to the Phoenicians. 
It has also been traced to the Latin u Apri- 
cus" sunny. Or again to the Greek privative 
64 a, and " which may denote u a burning 
climate." Whichever of these may be the true 
source ' it is now hard to discover. It seems, 
however, that a small province in the Northern 
part, in more ancient times a Carthaginian 
district, to which the Eomans applied the term 
u Africa Propria" at length imparted its own 
name to the whole continent. 
To the Greeks this quarter of the globe was 
better known as u Libya*" which term most 
commonly denoted exclusively the maritime 
district between the greater Syrtis and Egypt, 
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