Histories

If he sleeps wrapped in a garment or cloth, the mosquitos bite through it; but through the net they absolutely do not even venture.

The boats in which they carry cargo are made of the acacia,[*](The “Mimosa Nilotica,” still used for boat-building in Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt.) which is most like the lotus of Shahhat [21.866,32.833] (inhabited place), Al Jabal al Akhdar, Libya, AfricaCyrene in form, and its sap is gum. Of this tree they cut logs of four feet long and lay them like courses of bricks,[*](That is, like bricks laid not one directly over another but with the joints alternating.) and build the boat