Note 232 — Chapter III
Walter Armstrong translation
Mariette, Dayr-el-Bahari, p. 30, believed that Punt was in Africa, probably in the region of the Somali. He quotes various passages from the writings of modern travellers to show that this strange obesity is rather an African than an Arabian characteristic. See Speke's description of the favourite wife of Vouazerou, Discovery of the Source of the Nile, chap. viii., and Schweinfurth's account of the Bongo women, Heart of Africa (3rd edition) pp. 136 and 137.