Footnotes
[71]
He was desirous of conquering it. — Herodotus, lib. iv. 42.
[72]
Pliny, lib. ii, cap. 67; Pomponius Mela, lib. iii, cap. 9.
[73]
Herodotus, Melpomene, iv. 43.
[74]
Add to this what I shall say in chapter 11 of this book on the
navigation of Hanno.
[75]
In the months of October, November, December, and January the
wind in the Atlantic Ocean is found to blow north-east; our ships
therefore either cross the line, and to avoid the wind, which is there
generally east, they direct their course to the south: or else they
enter into the torrid zone, in those places where the wind is west.
[76]
The sea to which we give this name was called by the ancients
the Gulf of Arabia; the name of Red Sea they gave to that part of the
ocean which borders on this gulf.
[78]
Ibid. Artemidorus settled the borders of the known coast at the
place called Austricornu; and Eratosthenes, Cinnamomiferam.
[79]
Strabo, lib. i, cap. 7; lib. iv, cap. 9; table 4 of Africa.
[80]
This Periplus is attributed to Arrian.
[81]
Ptolemy, lib. iv, cap. 9.
[82]
Book iv, caps. 7 and 8.
[83]
See what exact descriptions Strabo and Ptolemy have given us of
the different parts of Africa. Their knowledge was owing to the several
wars which the two most powerful nations in the world had waged with the
people of Africa, to the alliances they had contracted, and to the trade
they had carried on with those countries.
