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ICHTHYOPHAGI (Gr. for " fish-eaters ")

This article appears in Volume V14, Page 270 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: I27-INV
ICHTHYOPHAGI (Gr. for " fish-eaters ") , the name given by ancient geographers to several
coast
 -dwelling peoples in different parts of the world and ethnically unrelated. Nearchus mentions such a race as inhabiting the barren shores of the Mekran on the Arabian Sea; Pausanias locates them on the western
coast
  of the Red Sea.
Ptolemy
  speaks of
fish
 -eaters in Ethiopia, and on the west coast of Africa; while Pliny relates the existence of such tribes on the islands in the Persian Gulf.
Herodotus
  (
book
  i. c. 200) mentions three tribes of the Babylonians who were solely
fish
 -eaters, and in
book
  iii. c. xg refers to Ichthyophagi in
Egypt
 . The existence of such tribes was confirmed by Sir
Richard
  F. Burton (El-Medinah, p. 144).


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