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traces of footsteps : by the route which begins two miles be- 
yond Mount Casius, and at a distance of sixty miles enters the 
road from Pelusium, adjoining to which road the Arabian 
tribe of the Autei dwell ; or else by a third route, which 
leads from Gerrum, and which they call Adipsos,®^ passing 
through the same Arabians, and shorter by nearly sixty miles, 
but running over rugged mountains and through a district 
destitute of water. All these roads lead to Arsinoe,^^ a city 
founded in honour of his sister's name, upon the Gulf of Ca- 
randra, by Ptolemy Philadelphus, who was the first to explore 
Troglodytice, and called the river which flows before Arsinoe 
by the name of Ptolemseus. After this comes the little town 
of Enum, by some writers mentioned as Philotera ; next to 
which are the Abassei, a nation sprung from intermarriages 
with the Troglodytse, then some wild Arabian tribes, the islands 
of Sapirine and Scytala, and after these, deserts as far as 
Myoshormon, where we And the fountain of Tatnos, Mou*nt 
^as, the island of lambe, and numerous harbours. Berenice 
also, is here situate, so called after the name of the mother of 
Philadelphus, and to which there is a road from Coptos, as we 
have previously stated then the Arabian Autei, and the Ze- 
badei. 
CHAP. 34. TEOGLODTTICE. 
Troglodytice comes next, by the ancients called Midoe, and 
by some Michoe ; here is Mount Pentedactylos, some islands 
called StensD Deirse,^^ the Halonnesi,^* a group of islands 
not less in number, Cardamine, and Topazos,^^ which last has 
given its name to the precious stone so called. The gulf is 
full of islands ; those known as Mareu are supplied with 
fresh water, those called Erenos, are without it ; these were 
ruled by governors^ appointed by the kings. In the interior 
The " not thirsty" route, so called by way of antiphrasis. 
81 See B. V. c. 9. 
82 In c. 26 of the present Book. 
83 Or "narrow necks," apparently, from the Greek ffrrjvai ^tipai. If 
this be the correct reading, they were probably so called from the narrow 
strait which ran between them. 
8* An island called Halonnesus has been already mentioned in B, iv. 
c. 23. None of these islands appear to have been identified. 
85 See B. xxxvii. c. 32. 
86 This seems to be the meaning, though, literally translated, it would 
be, " These were the prefects of kings." 
