And now let us land and rest." So we landed and while I did so I took note of these Ethiopians.

They were great men, black as charcoal with thick lips, white teeth and flat noses.

Their eyes were large and the whites of them somewhat yellow, their hair curled like wool, their beards were short and on their faces they wore a continual smile.

Of dress most of them had little, but their elders or leaders wore lion and leopard skins and some were clad in a kind of silken tunic belted about the middle.

All were armed for war with long bows, short swords and small shields round in shape and made from the hide of the hippopotamus or of the unicorn.