enterprise, which was commenced for the purpose of _coasting_ the African Continent, and consequently they would use every endeavour to keep the land in sight,--to Port Natal, Nature had befriended them. Continuing on 10 degrees of Southern latitude, they reached the Cape of Good Hope. Here the constant wind, which had accompanied them as a friendly convoy from Suez to Natal, now deserted them, and the fierce currents of air rushed as enemies from every quarter to oppose their further progress; and terrible indeed must have been the passing of that stormy Cape to mariners for the first time; they had no previous report of the dangers, but had to meet the foe, as it were, in ambush,--they had no North-Star or Compass to guide them,--their astro-beacons upon the Mediterranean had been the _Ursa_ Constellations; but even those, perhaps, were now obscured by their locality, or by the rising and gathering storm-clouds. 608 B. C.] Having doubled the Cape of Good Hope (probably at the end of the first year) and sailing northward along the western coast of Africa 10 degrees towards the Equator, brought them to the minor river of Namquois,--at this point is the thirty degrees of South latitude on the _Atlantic_ ocean, and the commencement of the East-Wind blowing _from_ Africa, and with much greater force than from the Indian Ocean _towards_ Africa, and for the reason previously stated, viz., that both the Sun and the hot sands of the Desert join their united powers in producing the fierce air-currents,--and consequently this strong wind thus blowing from Africa, has a direct tendency to drift vessels from the coasting of the shores into the broad Atlantic,--and in the present case of the Tyrians, they would have to struggle continually against the power of this East-Wind to keep in sight of land; it was accomplished only by the skill and strength of the Rowers, and this was especially required when they reached the Equator at the Gulf of Guinea,--for here without doubt they encountered the terrific effects of the Equinoctial hurricanes;--all their skill and courage were now demanded,--their Rowers had reached the broad and raging waters of untracked seas,--here their fleet may have sundered, and many a galley have been dismasted, or "broken," and so foundered. We believe that this was the case at this point of their Voyage, for in the words of the Prophet EZEKIEL, who (as will be proved) was speaking of this Expedition by the Tyrians, and of the peculiar Wind causing these disasters,--not spoken as a Prophecy, but as a cause accomplishing the disasters:-- "Thy Rowers _have_ brought thee (Tyrus) into _great waters_: the _East-wind_ HATH _broken thee in the midst of the Seas_!"