Note 189-2 — Chapter IV
John J. (John Joseph) Lalor translation
We here, for the time being, make abstraction of all entangling surrounding circumstances. However, Diodor., III, 15 ff., and Strabo, XVI, 773, describe a very similar condition of things among the Ichthyographs; also Hildebrand, Reise, um die Erde, III, 2, in China. In the Sudan, whole generations fetch water every day from a distant town, instead of working for a few weeks to dig a deep well nearer home. (Barth, Afr. Reise, III, 297.)