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The boats in which they carry cargo are made of the acacia,1 which is most like the lotus of Cyrene in form, and its sap is gum. Of this tree they cut logs of four feet long and lay them like courses of bricks,2 and build the boat

1 The “Mimosa Nilotica,” still used for boat-building in Egypt.

2 That is, like bricks laid not one directly over another but with the joints alternating.

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