After ten days' journey again from +Awjilah [21.2,29.15] (inhabited place), Banghazi, Libya, Africa Augila there is yet another hill of salt and springs of water and many fruit-bearing palms, as at the other places; men live there called Garamantes, an exceedingly great nation, who sow in earth which they have laid on the salt.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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