[33] {autos eoutou peei pollo upodeesteros e tou thereos}.
[34] {diakaion ten diexodon auto}, i.e. {to reri}. Some Editors read {autou} (with inferior MSS.) or alter the word to {eoutou}.
[35] "set forth, so far as I understood."
[36] {epi makrotaton}, "carrying the inquiry as far as possible," cp. ch. 34.
[37] I have little doubt that this means the island of Elephantine; for at this point only would such a mixture of races be found. To this the writer here goes back parenthetically, and then resumes the account of the journey upwards from Tachompso. This view is confirmed by the fact that Strabo relates the same thing with regard to the island of Philai just above Elephantine.