If at this period they had had _sails_ only, they would have been cast abroad upon the Atlantic Ocean, and so have been driven to America;--but we will not avail ourselves of a _possibility_, when we are possessed of a _probability_ and _truth_ as to the cause and means of their reaching the Western Hemisphere, which the subsequent pages will, (we believe) prove and establish. In this voyage their object was apparent, and upon losing masts and sails, still the power of the Rowers would accomplish that object,--viz., of coasting the African shores, and consequently prevent the drifting of a Galley to America. Their determination was to reach that home where their king and countrymen were waiting with open arms to receive the adventurous "spirits of the vasty deep,"--Egypt, also, was waiting to give her welcome, and to announce the victory of Science. We are anxious to destroy even any apparent possibility (however remote) of their reaching the Western Hemisphere during this voyage. We desire this History to rest upon the more lasting basis of strong and apparent truth and probability,--but, even if a Galley had drifted across the Atlantic, an absolute _cause_ exists against even the _possibility_ of their _populating_ America at this time. Of this hereafter,--if the ingenious reader has not already guessed the reason. Having escaped from the hurricanes of the Equator, and having "crossed the line," the, to them, phenomenon of Nature again appeared, but in a different aspect, exciting again their fears and alarm,--yet mingled with recovering joy, for it appeared the same as when they, at Tyrus, gazed upon the rising Sun, and knelt in prayer to the Apollo of their ancestors! We will not anticipate this "phenomenon," although the ingenuity of the reader may--we retain it for our final proof that this Expedition was accomplished.