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region of Dabanegoris, Mount Orsa, with a harbour, the gulf of 
Duatus, with numerous islands, Mount Tricoryphos,^^ the region 
of Cardaleon, and the islands called Solanades, Cachinna, and 
that of the Ichthyophagi. We then find the Clari, the shore 
of Mamseum, on which there are gold mines, the region of Ca- 
nauna, the nations of the Apitami and the Casani, the island of 
Devade, the fountain of Coralis, the Carphati, the islands of 
Calaeu and Amnamethus, and the nation of the Darrse. Also, 
the island of Chelonitis,^^ numerous islands of Ichthyophagi, 
the deserts of Odanda, Basa, many islands of the Sabsei, the 
rivers Thanar and Amnume, the islands of Dorice, and the 
fountains of Daulotos and Dora. We find also the islands of 
Pteros, Labatanis, Coboris, and Sambrachate, with a town of 
the same name^^ on the mainland. Lying to the south are a 
great number of islands, the largest of which is Camari ; also 
the river Musecros, and the port of Laupas. We then come 
to the Sabagi, a nation of Scenitse,^^ with numerous islands, and 
the city of Acila,^^ which is their mart, and from which persons 
embark for India. We next come to the region of Amithos- 
cutta. Damnia, the Greater and the Lesser Mizi, and the 
Drimati. The promontory of the Naumachsei, over against 
Carmania, is distant from it fifty miles. A wonderful circum- 
stance is said to have happened here ; ^^umenius, who was 
made governor of Mesena by king Antiochus, while fighting 
against the Persians, defeated them at sea, and at low water, 
by land, with an army of cavalry, on the same day ; in 
memory of which event he erected a twofold trophy on the 
same spot, in honour of Jupiter and ^^eptune.^* 
Opposite to this place, in the main sea, lies the island of Ogyris,^^ 
29 Or the mountain with the Three Peaks." 
5" Stephanus mentions this as an island of the Erythraean Sea. Hardly 
any of these places appear to have been identified ; and there is great im- 
certainty as to the orthography of the names. 
31 From which came the myrrh, mentioned by Pliny in B. xii. c. 36. 
32 Or the Tent-Dwellers, the modern Bedouins. 
33 By some geographers identified with the Ocelis or Ocila, mentioned 
in c. 26, the present Zee Hill or Ghela, a short distance to the south of 
Mocha, and to the north of the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb. Hardouin says, 
however, that it was a difi'erent place, Acila being in the vicinity of the 
Persian Gulf, in which he appears to be correct. 
3^ Nothing relative to Numenius beyond this fact has been recorded, 
Hardouin and Ansart think that under this name is meant the 
island called in modern times Mazira or Maceira, 
