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TLINT's FATUllAL HISTOET. 
[Book VI. 
distant five days' journey from the (Ecalices, the TJsibalci, the 
Isbeli, the Perusii, the Ballii, and the Cispii, the rest being 
deserts, and inhabited by the tribes of fable only. In a more 
westerly direction are the Nigrose, whose king has only one eye, 
and that in the forehead, the Agriophagi,'*^ who live principally 
on the flesh of panthers and lions, the Pamphagi,^^ who will eat 
anything, the Anthropophagi, who live on human flesh, the Cy- 
namolgi,'*^ a people with the heads of dogs, the Artabatitae, who 
have four feet, and wander about after the manner of wild 
beasts ; and, after them, the Hesperise and the Perorsi, whom we 
have already spoken*^ of as dwelling on the confines of Mauri- 
tania. Some tribes, too, of the -Ethiopians subsist on nothing 
but locusts,'^''' which are smoke-dried and salted as their 
provision for the year ; these people do not live beyond their 
fortieth year. 
M. Agrippa was of opinion that the length of the whole 
country of the Ethiopians, including the Eed Sea, was two 
thousand one hundred and seventy miles, and its breadth, 
including Upper Egypt, twelve hundred and ninety- seven. 
Some authors again have made the following divi^ons of its 
length ; from Meroe to Sirbitum eleven days' sail, from Sir- 
bitum to the Dabelli fifteen days', and from them to the Ethi- 
opian Ocean six days' journey. It is agreed by most authors, 
that the distance altogether, from the ocean"*^ to Meroe, is six 
hundred and twenty-five miles, and from Meroe to Syene, 
that which we have already mentioned. Ethiopia lies from 
south-east to south-west. Situate as it is, in a southern 
hemisphere, forests of ebo.ny are to be seen of the brightest 
verdure ; and in the midst of these regions there is a moun- 
tain of immense height, which overhangs the sea, and emits a 
perpetual flame. By the Greeks this mountain is called 
Theon Ochema,*^ and at a distance of four days' sail from it 
*3 So called from the Greek — Eaters of wild beasts." 
The " all-eaters." 
45 Or the " livers on the milk of the dog.'* 
46 In 0. 8 of the preceding Book. 
^"^ Tkey were thence called by the Greeks " Acridophagi.'* According 
to A gathar chides, these people dwelt in what is modern Nubia, where 
Burkhardt found the people subsisting on lizards. 
47* Hardouin remarks, that the length is measured from south-east to 
south-west; and the breadth from south to north. 
^8 The supposed Southern Ocean, which joins the Atlantic on the west. 
4^ Or the " Chariot of the gods," mentioned also in Book ii. c. 110, and 
