Mean while, we cannot deny, but that the _Gorgades_ that lye before _Cape de Verd_ were frequented by the _Carthaginians_, long before the Birth of our Savior; but with so much admiration, that _Hanno_ their Captain in that Expedition was listed amongst the number of their Heroes, hapning thus: The _Carthaginians_ sailing for _Cadiz_, to assist the _Phenicians_ against the _Spaniards_, made that the Seat of War, which soon drew on a greater Design; for _Hamilco_ and _Hanno_ being impowr’d by the Senate at _Carthage_, manag’d the War in _Spain_. Both of them were ambitious to discover new Countreys. _Hamilco_ sail’d along the Coast of _Spain_ and _Gaule_, reaching to _Batavia_. _Hanno_ steer’d Southerly, carrying thirty thousand Men of all Trades in his Fleet, purposing to build a new City in some place or other, and got beyond the Promontory _Ampelusium_, now call’d _Cabo Spatil_; the River _Ziloa_, which washeth the City _Arzilla_; and the Stream _Lix_, now _Lusso_, where the Poets place the Gardens of the _Hesperides_, in the custody of a waking Dragon: From thence proceeding on his Voyage, he came to an Anchor in the Mouth of the River _Subur_, at this day call’d _Subu_; and afterwards before the City _Sala_, now call’d _Salle_, at that time made very dangerous by the voracious Beasts in the neighboring Woods: At last the Fleet reach’d the Foot of the lesser _Atlas_, which ends at the Point _Chaunaria_, by the Modern Navigators call’d _Cabo Non_, because it was judg’d, that none could scape with Life, that durst adventure to steer beyond _Chaunaria_; yet _Hanno_ sail’d between _Palma_, one of the _Canary-Islands_, and the Promontory _Bojadoris_, towards the pointed Coast call’d then _Cornu Hesperium_, but now _Cape Verd_, in the River _Asama_, by _Castaldus_ call’d _Omirabi_: Here he found horrible Croccodiles, and _Hippopotami_ or Sea-Horses. _Atsama_ is held to flow from the same Fountain whence the _Nyle_ hath its Original. In this Latitude _Hanno_ descried those Islands which he call’d _Gorgones_ (from the three deform’d Sisters _Medusa_, _Sthenio_, and _Euryale_, whose Heads were Periwig’d with curl’d Serpents) because they found as illfavor’d Women on these Islands, which at this day the _Hollanders_ call the _Salt-Islands_; amongst which, the chiefest is _St. Jago_, a Colony of _The Portuguese_; but the Mountains opposite to the _Gorgones_, on the main Coast of _Africa_, rising aloft with spiring tops near the River _Masitholus_, _Hanno_ call’d the _Chariots of the Gods_, now nam’d _Sierra Liona_, lying in eight Degrees Northern Latitude. When _Hanno_ and his Armado, either provok’d by an undaunted Courage, or covetous of fame, if they proceeded in their so wonderful Adventure, went forward, where they reported, that they saw Rivers of Fire falling into the Ocean, the Countrey all about burning, and the tops of the Mountains dazleing their Eyes with continual Flashes of