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Next is another tract of sea-coast, formerly called the coast of the Maranitae,The Maraneitae appear to me to be the same people whom other geographers call Pharanitae, and who received their name from their proximity to Cape Pharan, now Ras Mahomet. Gossellin. some of whom were husbandmen, others Scenitae; but at present it is occupied by Garindaei, who destroyed the former possessors by treachery. They attacked those who were assembled to celebrate some quinquennial festival, and put them to death; they then attacked and exterminated the rest of the tribe.Diodorus Siculus, iii. § 41, following Agatharchides, narrates the fact with greater precision. The Garindaei took advantage of the absence of the greater part of the Maraneitae, and put to death those that remained. They then laid in wait for and massacred all those who were returning from the festival.
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Next is the AelaniticGulf of Akaba. Gulf and Nabataea, a country well peopled, and abounding in cattle. The islands which lie near, and opposite, are inhabited by people who formerly lived without molesting others, but latterly carried on a piratical warfare in raftsLight vessels. Diodorus Sic. against vessels on their way from Egypt. But they suffered reprisals, when an armament was sent out against them, which devastated their country.
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Next is a plain, well wooded and well supplied with water; it abounds with cattle of all kinds, and, among other animals, mules, wild camels, harts, and hinds; lions also, leopards, and wolves are frequently to be found. In front lies an island called Dia. Then follows a bay of about 500 stadia in extent, closed in by mountains, the entrance into which is of difficult access. About it live people who are hunters of wild animals.
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Next are three desert islands, abounding with olive trees, not like those in our own country, but an indigenous kind, which we call Ethiopic olives, the tears (or gum) of which have a medicinal virtue.
