The Ports Around Erythraean Sea: The Country of Barbaroi.
The second paragraph does not account any port, but gives an account of the people and the region. Beyond Berenice of Cave dwellers was the country of Barbaroi. Barboaroi does not mean barbarians. It means people whose language was not Greek. The word comes from βάρβαρος (barbaros) refering to the speech that sounded to Greek ears like bar-bar and barbaros. The region was inhabited by fish-eaters (Ichthy-ophagoi) living in small huts built in narrow strip of land, and beyond them Agriophagoi, people who subsist on wild-animals, and beyond these Moscho-phagoi, people who subsist on young animals or sprouts. They were hunter-gatherers organised under a chief. There was a kind of political formation in its primitive stage and that formation was inclusive of different tribes. The chiefs must have been the middlemen between the Greek merchants and the tribal peo