350) between Phoenicia and an island which he calls Cerne, probably Arguin, off the West African coast.

"The merchants," he says,[9107] "who are Phoenicians, when they have arrived at Cerne, anchor their vessels there, and after having pitched their tents upon the shore, proceed to unload their cargo, and to convey it in smaller boats to the mainland.

The dealers with whom they trade are Ethiopians; and these dealers sell to the Phoenicians skins of deer, lions, panthers, and domestic animals--elephants' skins also, and their teeth.

The Ethiopians wear embroidered garments, and use ivory cups as drinking vessels; their women adorn themselves with ivory bracelets; and their horses also are adorned with ivory.

The Phoenicians convey to them ointment, elaborate vessels from Egypt, castrated swine( ?), and Attic pottery and cups.