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ICHTHYOPHAGI (Gr. for " fish-eaters ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 270 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ICHTHYOPHAGI (Gr. for "
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fish-eaters ")  , the name given by
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ancient geographers to several
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coast-dwelling peoples in different parts of the
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world and ethnically unrelated .
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Nearchus mentions such a
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race as inhabiting the barren shores of the Mekran on the Arabian
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Sea;
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Pausanias locates them on the western coast of the Red Sea .
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Ptolemy speaks of
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fish-eaters in
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Ethiopia, and on the
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west coast of
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Africa; while
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Pliny relates the existence of such tribes on the islands in the
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Persian Gulf .
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Herodotus (
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book i. c . 200) mentions three tribes of the Babylonians who were solely fish-eaters, and in book iii. c. xg refers to
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Ichthyophagi in
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Egypt . The existence of such tribes was confirmed by
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Sir
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Richard F .
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Burton (El-Medinah, p . 144) .

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