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p. 242.—Diodorus mentions a people in that part of Æthiopia above Egypt, whom he calls (
Greek characters) or wood-eaters, for they ſubſiſted entirely upon the woods, eating either the fruits of the trees, or when they could not get theſe, chewing the tender ſhoots and young branches, as we ſee cattle do in this country. This made them very nimble in climbing trees, &c."—See Monboddo.
"As the Arabs had their excellencies, ſo have they, like other nations, their defects and vices. Their own writers acknowledge that they have a natural diſpoſition to war, bloodſhed, cruelty, and rapine, being ſo much addicted to bear malice, that they ſcarce ever forget an oldgrudge:
