At a distance of ten days' journey again from the Ammonians along the sandy ridge, there is a hill of salt like that of the Ammonians, and springs of water, where men live; this place is called +Awjilah [21.2,29.15] (inhabited place), Banghazi, Libya, Africa Augila; it is to this that the Nasamones come to gather palm-fruit.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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