Note 297 — Chapter I
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Mela, iii. 100, 102, etc. The chief passage is Pliny, Hist. Nat., vi. 36, 37, who took his information from King Juba and a writer named Statius Sebosus. Pliny, who, beside the groups named in the text, mentions the Gorgades, which he identifies with the place where Hanno met the gorillas, has probably misunderstood and garbled his authorities; his account is contradictory and illusive.