Cetera incolis crediderant, inter quae: Rubrum mare non a colore undarum, ut plerique crederent,  sed ab Erythro rege appellari; esse haud procul a continenti insulam palmetis frequentibus consitam et in medio fere nemore columnam eminere, Erythri regis monumentum, litteris gentis eius scriptam.
As to other matters they had taken the word of the natives; that the Red Sea was so called, not from the colour of its waters, as most people believed, but  from a King Erythrus; that there was, not far from the mainland, an island thickly planted with palmgroves, and that in about the middle of the wood a lofty column arose, marking the grave of King Erythrus and inscribed in the characters of that nation.
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