Of Phoenician and other voyages along the Atlantic coast of Africa we have much more detailed and trustworthy information. As early as the twelfth century before Christ traders from Tyre had founded Cadiz (Gades),[351] and at a later date the same hardy people seem to have made the beginnings of Lisbon (Olisipo). From such advanced stations Tyrian and Carthaginian ships sometimes found their way northward as far as Cornwall, and in the opposite direction fishing voyages were made along the African coast. The most remarkable undertaking in this quarter was the famous voyage of the Carthaginian commander Hanno, whose own brief but interesting account of it has been preserved.[352] This expedition consisted of sixty penteconters (fifty-oared ships), and its chief purpose was colonization. Upon the Mauritanian coast seven small trading stations were founded, one of which--Kerne, at the mouth of the Rio d' Ouro[353]--existed for a long time. From this point Hanno made two voyages of exploration, the second of which carried him as far as Sierra Leone and the neighbouring Sherboro island, where he found "wild men and women covered with hair," called by the interpreters "gorillas."[354] At that point the ships turned back, apparently for want of provisions. [Footnote 351: Rawlinson's _History of Phoenicia_, pp. 105, 418; Pseudo-Aristotle, _Mirab. Auscult._, 146; Velleius Paterculus, i. 2, Sec. 6.] [Footnote 352: Hanno, _Periplus_, in Mueller, _Geographi Graeci Minores_, tom. i. pp. 1-14. Of two or three commanders named Hanno it is uncertain which was the one who led this expedition, and thus its date has been variously assigned from 570 to 470 B. C.] [Footnote 353: For the determination of these localities see Bunbury, _op. cit._ vol. i. pp. 318-335. There is an interesting Spanish description of Hanno's expedition in Mariana, _Historia de Espana_, Madrid, 1783, tom. i. pp. 89-93.] [Footnote 354: The sailors pursued them, but did not capture any of the males, who scrambled up the cliffs out of their reach. They captured three females, who bit and scratched so fiercely that it was useless to try to take them away. So they killed them and took their skins home to Carthage. _Periplus_, xviii. According to Pliny (_Hist. Nat._, vi. 36) these skins were hung up as a votive offering in the temple of Juno (i. e. Astarte or Ashtoreth: see Apuleius, _Metamorph._, xi. 257; Gesenius, _Monumenta Phoenic._, p. 168), where they might have been seen at any time before the Romans destroyed the city.] [Sidenote: Voyages of Sataspes and Eudoxus.]