Note 10 — TRADE AND COMMERCE OF NORTHERN CENTRAL AFRICA.

With the parts to which the trade is at present contemplated, the Romans and Egyptians, in the days of Ptolemy, seem to have been well acquainted. Of Africa he says, “Est autem illa pars mundi quæ Aphrica dicitur minor spacie quam Asiæ vel Europa: sed pro sua quantitate ditior est et mirabilior in quantitate. Nam in auro et gemmis ditissima, est similitur in frugibus, fructibus et olinis. Mirabilissima etiam producit bestiarum et hominem species et figuras,” &c.