The Periplus of Hanno; a Voyage of Discovery Down the West African Coast
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Walther Busse in Mitteilungen aus der Deutschen Schutzgehieten, 1908, No. 2, reviewed in the Geographical Journal for October, 1908. CARTHAGE AND THE CARTHAGINIANS By R. BOSWORTH SMITH, M. A. London, 1877 Chapter I. Extracts "The land-locked sea, the eastern extremity of which washes the shores of Phoenicia proper, connecting as it does three continents, and abounding in deep gulfs, in fine harbors, and in fertile islands, seems to have been intended by nature for the early development of com- ...merce and colonization. By robbing the ocean of half its mystery and more than half its terrors, it allured the timid mariner, even as the eagle does her young, from headland on to headland, or from 12 islet to islet, till it became the highway of the nations of the ancient world; and the products of each of the countries whose shores i laves became the common property of all. At a very early period the Etruscans, for instance, that mysterious people who then occu- pied with their settlements Campania and Cisalpine Gaul, as well as that extensive intermediate region to which they afterwards gave their name, swept all the Italian seas with their galleys, half piratical, and half commercial.
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