Histories

foxes, hyenas, porcupines, wild rams, the dictys, jackals, panthers, the borys,[*](The dictys and borys are not identifiable. (But there is a small African deer called the Dik-dik).) land crocodiles sixty inches long, very like lizards, and ostriches and little one-horned serpents; all these beasts besides those that are elsewhere too, except deer and wild boar; of these two kinds there are none at all in Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya.

There are in this country three kinds of mice, the two-footed,[*](Clearly, the jerboa.) the “zegeries” (this is a Libyan word, meaning in our language “hills”), and the bristly-haired, as they are called. There are also weasels found in the silphium, very like to the weasels of Tartessus. So many are the wild creatures of the nomads' country, as far as by our utmost enquiry we have been able to learn.

Next to the Maxyes of Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya are the Zauekes, whose women drive their chariots to war.

Next to these are the Gyzantes, where much honey is made by bees, and much more yet (so it is said) by craftsmen.[*](cp. Hdt. 7.31, where men are said to make honey out of wheat and tamarisk.) It is certain that they all paint themselves with vermilion and eat apes, with which their mountains swarm.