Histories

but every shepherd there knows enough of carpentry to make little carts which they fix under the tails, binding the tail of each sheep on its own cart. The other kind of sheep has a tail a full three feet broad.

Where south inclines westwards, the part of the world stretching farthest towards the sunset is Ethiopia [39,8] (nation), AfricaEthiopia; this produces gold in abundance, and huge elephants, and all sorts of wild trees, and ebony, and the tallest and handsomest and longest-lived people.