AUTHORITIES FOR CHAPTER I. 



(1) "Hinc (i.e. ®ewv ox^/ia) tridui navigatione tor- 

 rentes igneos praetervecti in sinum -vetiiimis, qui Noti 

 Ceras dicitur (Notov Kepas). In sinus recessu insula erat 

 priori, illi similis ; nam lacum habebat, in quo insula 

 erat altera, referta hominibus silvestribus. Erant 

 autem mnlto plures mulieres hirsutis corporibus, quas 

 interpretes Gorillas (TopiWaf) vocabant. Nos perse- 

 quentes viros quidem capere non potuimus, omnes enim 

 effugiebant quum per praecipitia scanderent et saxis se 

 defenderent ; sed feminas cepimus-tres, quge mordentes 

 et lacerantes ductores sequi nolebant. Atque occidimus 

 eas et pelles detraotas asportavimus Carthaginem. 

 Neque enim ulterius navigavimus, quum annona de- 

 ficeret " (Hannonis Carthaginiensis Periplus. Geo- 

 grapbi Grseci Minores, ed. C. Muelleri, vol. i.). 



(2) Comp. Temminck, Esquisses zoologiques sur la 

 cote de Guinee (Leiden, 1853)., p. 3. 



(3) Marc, de Serres first directed the attention of 

 naturalists to this mosaic. Comp. Froriep, Notizen zur 

 Natur-und Heilkunde, book 42. It has been frequently 

 said that the original of this mosaic is in the Museum 

 of Antiquities at Berlin. Undoubtedly the mosaic in 

 question also consists of a landscape with hippopotami, 

 crocodile, etc., but it cannot be compared with that of 



