The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. Vol. IIZurara, Gomes Eannes de
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The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. Vol. II
Zurara, Gomes Eannes de
Guinea (Region) -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800
[Footnote 61: One account of Hanno's voyage was preserved on a
Punic inscription in the temple of "Kronos," "Saturn," or
Moloch, at Carthage; the inscription was translated into Greek
by an unknown hand, probably about 300 B.C.; and this version
of the _Periplus_ still remains to us. See Pliny, _Hist.
Nat._, ii, 67; v, 1, 36; vi, 31; _Solinus_, 56; _Pomponius
Mela_, iii, 9. The first edition of the Greek text is by
Gelenius, Basel 1534; the best by C. Müller, in _Geographi
Graeci Minores_. Cf. also an edition by Falconer, London,
1797; an edition by Kluge, Leipsig, 1829; Rennell, _Geography
of Herodotus_, 719-745, 4to ed.; Bunbury, _Ancient Geography_,
i, 318-335; Walckenaer, _Recherches sur le Géographie de
l'Afrique_, p. 362, etc.; Vivien de St. Martin, _Le Nord de
l'Afrique dans l Antiquité_, pp. 330-400; Major, _Henry
Navigator_, 90, etc., 1868; Charton, _Voyageurs Anciens_, i,
1-5, Ed. of 1882; Gossellin, _Recherches sur la Géographie des
Anciens_, i, pp. 70-106; A. Mer, _Mémoire sur le Pêriple
d'Hannon_, 1885; Campomanés, _El Periplo de Hannone
illustrado_, appended to his _Antiquedad maritima de Cartago_
(1756); Bougainville, _Acad. des Inscr. et Belles Lettres_,
xxvi, xxvii, and especially xxviii, p. 287.]
[Footnote 62: Near Cape Non.]
[Footnote 63: This can hardly be the Senegal and Lake Nguier,
as suggested by V. de St. Martin.]
[Footnote 64: Cape Verde?]
[Footnote 65: The Gambia?]
[Footnote 66: Cabo dos Mastos?]
[Footnote 67: Burton, with characteristic recklessness,
insists on the Camaroons Mt. as the Chariot of the Gods
("Abeokuta and Camaroons Mt."); Fernando Po being another of
the "lofty fiery mountains" seen by Hanno at this point.]
[Footnote 68: In the Sierra Leone range?]
[Footnote 69: Near Sherboro' island?]
It is very difficult to identify Hanno's positions, and this is not the
place to attempt a fresh investigation.[70] But the tradition of this
_Periplus_ having reached far beyond the Straits of Gibraltar--farther
than any venture of the earlier Middle Ages, or of the classical
period--may be regarded as reliable, and some position on the Sierra
Leone coast may provisionally be taken as its ultimate point of advance.
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