74 EARLY GEOGRAPHICAL SPECULATIONS. [CHAP. IV.
Caspapyrus or Caspatyrus, the town on the banks of the Indus
from which Scylax of Caryanda was reputed to have started at the
command of Darius on his voyage of exploration down that river.
Several places are also noticed in Phoenicia, Syria and Arabia,
and especially in Egypt, as we might expect from his having
himself visited that country. The Nile was for him the boundary
of Libya on its eastern side, and, as 'we have
Africa' already seen, he regarded that river as flowing from
the southern ocean; akin to which primitive view is his reckoning
such mythical peoples as the Pygmies and the Sciapodes among
the inhabitants. The remainder of the treatise, to judge from the
extracts, dealt with the Mediterranean coast of Africa as far as the
Straits; and even beyond that limit occurs the name of Thinge,
the modern Tangier.