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CONTENTS. ---== | women, whom they, put to death, and carried their 
None Page | Skins to Carthage” ( Geogr. Greci Minores, Paris, 1826, 
Periplus of Hanno, by R. al cial - os F361. || Ps LTS: yp 
Pope Vindicated = - - ~ 362 . * 
The Supper of the Lorde - 362 Hanno obtained interpreters from a people who 
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Sword called Curtana, by E. F. Rimbanlt, LL.D. - 364 
Is the Dombec the Domesday of Alfred ? by Crores 
Munford - 365 
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— Gloves — Law Courts at St. Alban’s — Milton Pedi- 
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Replies to Minor Queries, by Sir ‘bi Cc. Trevelyan - 368 
Derivation of ‘* News” 369 
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Orosius — Golden Frog — Sword of Charles I. — 
John Bull — Vertue MSS. — Lines attributed to 
Tom Brown, &c. - - - iy ~ 369 
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PERIPLUS OF HANNO THE CARTHAGINIAN, 
Lam not sufficiently Quixotic to attempt a de- 
fence of the Carthaginians on the western coast of 
Africa, or any where else, but I submit that the 
accusation brought against them by Mr. S. Ban- 
nister, formerly ‘Attorney- -General of New South 
Wales, is not sustained by the only record we 
possess of Hanno’s colonising expedition. That 
gentleman, in his learned Records of British En- 
nproee, hey beyond Sea, just published, says, in a note, 
p- xlvii. :— 
“The first nomade tribe they reached was friendly, 
and furnished Hanno with interpreters. At length they 
discovered a nation whose language was unknown to the 
interpreters. These strangers they attempted to scize ; 
and, upon their resistance, they took three of the 
dwelt on the banks of a large river, called the 
Lixus, and-supposed to be the modern St. Cyprian. 
Having sailed thence for several days, and touched 
at different places, planting a colony in one of 
them, he came to a mountainous country inhabited 
by savages, who wore skins of wild beasts, d¢épuara, 
Shpea evnupevev. At a distance of twelve days’ 
sail, he came to. some Ethiopians, who could not 
endure the Carthaginians, and who spoke unin- 
telligibly even to the Lixite interpreters. These 
ave the people whose women, Mr, Bannister says, 
they killed. Hanno sailed from this inhospitable 
coast fifteen days, and came to a gulf which he 
calls Nérov Kéva, or South Horn. 
“ Here,” says the Dr. Hawkesworth, of Carthage, 
‘in the gulf, was an island, like the former, containing 
a lake, and in this another island, full of wild men; 
but the women were much more numerous, with hairy 
bodies (daceiat Tots cdpacw), whom the interpreters 
called yopixAas. We pursued the men, who, flying to 
precipices, defended themselves with stones, and could 
not be taken. ‘Three women, who bit and scratched. 
their leaders, would not follow them. Having killed 
them, we brought their skins to Carthage.” 
He does not so much as intimate that the crea- 
tures who so defended themselves with stones, or 
those whose bodies were covered with hair, spoke 
any language. Nothing but the words év@pwro 
&ypiot and yuvaikes Can lead us to believe that they 
were human beings at all; while the description 
of the behaviour of the men, and the bodies of the 
women, is not repugnant to the supposition that 
they were large apes, baboons, or orang-outangs, 
common, to this part of Africa. At all events, the 
voyagers do not say that they flayed a people 
having the faculty of speech. 
It is not, however, improbable that the Cartha- 
gimians were severe taskmasters of the people 
whom they subdued. Such I understand those to 
have been who opened the British tin mines, and 
who, according to Diodorus Siculus, excessively 
overworked the wretches who toiled for them, 
“wasting their bodies underground, and dying, 
