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τρωγλοδύτας. There were other Troglodytes on the Red Sea (Strabo 786) and also on the western ocean (Hanno, 7, in G. G. M. i. 6); their mode of life is characteristic of oppressed remnants of primitive races in various parts. The Troglodytes here are the ‘Tibboos’; for their swiftness of foot and the slave hunts of the Arabs among them cf. Lyon, Travels in North Africa, 1818-20, pp. 254-5. As strict Mahometans, they do not now eat the vermin here described by H.; but all accounts agree as to the scantiness of their food supply. Nachtigal (u. s. i. 266) found cave-dwellings such as H. describes.

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