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who are divided into numerous peoples ; they are said to be 
distant five days' journey from the sea, and to procure their 
subsistence by the chase of the elephant. An island in the 
Nile, which belongs to the Semberritae, is governed by a 
queen ; beyond it are the ^Ethiopian Nubei,^^ at a distance of 
eight days' journey : their town is Tenupsis, situate on the 
Nile. There are the Sesambri also, a people among whom 
all the quadrupeds are without ears, the very elephants even. 
On the African side are the Tonobari, the Ptoenphse, a people 
who have a dog for their king, and divine from his move- 
ments what are his commands ; the Auruspi, who have a 
town at a considerable distance from the Nile, and then the 
Archisarmi, the Phaliges, the Marigerri, and the Casmari. 
Bion makes mention also of some other towns situate 
on islands, the whole distance being twenty days' journey 
from Sembobitis to Meroe ; a town in an adjoining island, under 
the queen of the Semberritae, with another called Asara, and 
another, in a second island, called Darde. The name of a third 
island is Medoe, upon which is the town of Asel, and a fourth 
is called Garodes, with a town upon it of the same name. Pass- 
ing thence along the banks of the Nile, are the towns of Navi, 
Modunda, Andatis, Secundum, Colligat, Secande, Navectabe, 
Cumi, Agrospi, JEgipa, Candrogari, Araba, and Summara.^'' 
Eeyond is the region of Sirbitum, at which the mountains 
terminate,*^ and which by some writers is said to contain 
the maritime Ethiopians, the Nisacsethse, and the Nisyti, a 
word which signifies men with three or four eyes," — 
not that the people really have that conformation, but be- 
cause they are remarkable for the unerring aim of their 
arrows. On that side of the Nile which extends along the 
borders of the Southern Ocean beyond the Greater Syrtes,-'^ 
Dalion says that the people, who use rain-water only, are 
called the Cisori, and that the other nations are the Longompori, 
39 On the eastern side of the Nile, and bearing no reference, as Har- 
douin remarks, to the people of modern Nubia. 
*o There is considerable doubt as to the correctness of these names, as 
they are differently spelt in the MSS. 
Marcus thinks that these mountains are those which lie to the west 
of the Nile, in Darfour, and Dar-Sale, or Dizzela, mentioned by Salt, in 
his Travels in Abyssinia. 
*2 From this it would appear that Pliny, with Dalion, supposed that the 
Mle ran down to the southern ocean, and then took a turn along the coast 
in a westerly direction ; the shore being skirted by Syrtes, or quicksands, 
similar to those in the north of Africa. 
