DISCOVERIES OF THE ANCIENTS. 35 
Elaccus, who, marching directly south from Gara- 
ma, came in three months to the country of the 
Ethiopians ; the other by Julius Maternus, who, 
on learning that the Ethiopians had attacked Ga- 
rama, marched in four months from Leptis Mag- 
na to Agisymba, a country inhabited by that peo- 
ple. These two generals, therefore, crossed the 
desert ; but no details are given of their march, or 
of the region with which it terminated. Ptolemy 
even expresses some doubts as to its possibility ; 
which, however, evidently arise only from his own 
imperfect knowledge as to the extent of this part 
of the continent. 
