To the west along the seaboard is the territory held by the Makians, who shave their heads so as to leave a tuft of hair on the crown, letting the middle portion of their hair grow, while shaving clean what is on either side. In war they carry shields made of ostrich skins. (2) The Kinyps river [Wadi Qaam], which flows down from a hill called the “Hill of the Graces”, passes through their land emptying into the sea. This “Hill of the Graces” is thickly wooded, while the rest of Libya, which I have discussed previously, is bare of trees. It is twenty-five miles from the sea.
191 West of the Triton river and next to the Auseans begins the land of Libyans who cultivate the soil and possess houses. They are called Maxyans. They wear their hair long on the right side of their heads and shave the left, and they paint their bodies with vermilion. (2) These people claim descent from the men who came from Troy. Their lands and the rest of the western part of Libya are much fuller of wild beasts and are more wooded than the country of the nomads. (3) For the eastern region of Libya, which the nomads inhabit, is low-lying and sandy as far as the Triton river. But the land west of this, where the farmers live, is exceedingly mountainous, wooded and full of wild beasts.