How I Found Livingstone Travels, Adventures And Discoveries In Central Africa Including Four Months Residence With Dr. Livingstone By Sir Henry M. Stanley
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But I Have Heard The
Following Account From Certain Cyrenaeans, Who Say That They Went
To The Oracle Of Ammon,
And had a conversation with Etearchus, King
of the Ammonians, and that, among other subjects, they happened to
discourse about
The Nile - that nobody knew its sources; whereupon
Etearchus said that certain Nasamonians once came to him - this
nation is Lybian, and inhabits the Syrtis, and the country for no
great distance eastward of the Syrtis - and that when these
Nasamonians arrived, and were asked if they could give any
further formation touching the deserts of Libya, they answered,
that there were some daring youths amongst them, sons of powerful
men; and that they, having reached man's estate, formed many
other extravagant plans, and, moreover, chose five of their number
by lot to explore the deserts of Libya, to see if they could make
any further discovery than those who had penetrated the farthest.
(For, as respects the parts of Libya along the Northern Sea,
beginning from Egypt to the promontory of Solois, where is the
extremity of Libya, Libyans and various nations of Libyans reach
all along it, except those parts which are occupied by Grecians
and Phoenicians; but as respects the parts above the sea, and
those nations which reach down to the sea, in the upper parts
Libya is infested by wild beasts; and all beyond that is sand,
dreadfully short of water, and utterly desolate.) They further
related, "that when the young men deputed by their companions
set out, well furnished with water and provisions, they passed
first through the inhabited country; and having traversed this,
they came to the region infested by wild beasts; and after this
they crossed the desert, making their way towards the west; and
when they had traversed much sandy ground, during a journey of
many days, they at length saw some trees growing in a plain; and
that they approached and began to gather the fruit that grew on
the trees; and while they were gathering, some diminutive men,
less than men of middle stature, came up, and having seized them
carried them away; and that the Nasamonians did not at all understand
their language, nor those who carried them off the language of
the Nasamonians.
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