THE DISCOVEEY 



northern shores of Africa to Malta, Sicily, Sar- 

 dinia, Massilia and Tarshish in Spain. 



After the first ships of Phanicia had trav- 

 ersed the seas of the West there were plenty of 

 less courageous sails to follow in the wake. 

 The spirit of navigation grew apace. Soon 

 every rock-bound Ithaca had its fishing fleet 

 and navy, and in extending its dominions ex- 

 tended discovery. From Lydia, Caria, Phrygia 

 and the far Cimmerian Bosphorus, from the 

 islands of the -^gean and the shores of the 

 Greek mainland, the black ships of traders 

 drove down the wine-dark seas. Westward the 

 courses lay. Centuries before the Christian 

 era there were sails from Tyre and Sidon 

 skimming along the North African and Sicilian 

 coasts, passing through the Tyrrhenian Sea, 

 passing out through the Pillars, and up the 

 coast to the gray waters of the English Chan- 

 nel. It was not long before the great Phoeni- 

 cian colony, Carthage, rose to power. Her 

 merchantmen went hither and thither to dis- 

 tant countries and under Hanno (500 B.C.) her 

 galleys darkened the uninhabited waters of 

 western Africa. In the after-time, burdened 

 with produce from the Ganges and the Nile, 

 hundreds of sails were moving toward Rome. 

 Long before the sea struggle at Actium, the 



Greek 

 traders. 



Galleys of 

 Carthage 

 and Rome. 



