Chap. II. 



A M E %^l C A. 



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Is contradicted. 



Lib. 3. Gtofr, 



fUmmiJh IJt*ndf. 



I 



ic can juftly doubt, but that fince the Themctans took the Command of the Sea Teffimonies that the a- 



t, r 1 fT>l /• L 1 • > 1 1 • ^\ 1 mtncam are denv'i from 



" from the [ l\i)Qdians, they more and more increas d their Fleets, and growina x**i**ici»w. 



< l experter in Navigation, parting the Gibraltar Northward, became Matters of 



a Cadi^znd ftill prepar'd new Fleets,which fearching beyond Atlas Southward, 



iC difcovcr'd the Coafts of .Africa, and the adjacent Iflcs, driving a great Trade 



" to the Canaries, and to thole which lay fcatter'd along Capede Verd, formerly 



u call'd the Gorgades. This way of Trade alfo was not unknown to the Greeks, 



"Iberians, and other People- but after the fbenicwis affum'd it wholly to 



" themfelves, without any refpeft or difference of Countreys, they funk all 



" whomfoever they could catch. Curtius further adds, faying, " I believe that Krft Teftimony. 



u the Thcnicians, failing into the Main Ocean, have difcover'd unknown Coun« 



" treys. And which are thofe r Not the Gorgades,ot Canary Jjles . for thofe were 



fufficiently known before^ but a Main Land, far beyond. But though the Tbeni- 



cians were mod expert, yet not skilful enough to make out fuch Difcoveries. 



They indeed were the firft that before any other fail'd out of the Mid-land 



Sea j nay,they ventur'd a good way into the main Ocean, beyond the Straights 



of Gibraltar, or the Herculean Miliars : But how far ? Not to the Gorgades, above 



half way betwixt Spain and America ; but to the Caftitcrides, or Flemifb Iflands, 



which to the number of nine lie in fight of Spain. Strabo affirms this Truth, 



faying, ic The Cajfiterides are ten, lying in order clofe by one another: One 



ci remains uninhabited - y on the reft live a fwarthy People. This way the 



Thenicians fail'd firft, when they were in queft for Trade, from Cadif. And 



though he reckons ten, there are indeed but nine, Yt^. St. Mcbael, St. Mary, St. 



George, Tercera, de fico, or Tenariff, fo call'd from the Mountain which vomits 



Fire, Fayal,Las Flores,Vel Cuerto, and Gratiofa. Moreover,the fame Strabo relates, tf*. 17. 



"That the Carthaginians did not throw overboard the Traders on the remote 



" Gorgades, but thofe efpecially that came from Sardinia or Cadi^. 



Mean while, we cannot deny, but that the Gorgades that lye before Cape de 

 Verd were frequented by the Carthaginians, long before the Birth of our Savior-, 

 but with fo much admiration , that Hanno their Captain in that Expedition was 

 lifted amongftthe number of their Heroes, hapning thus : The Carthaginians 

 failing for Cadi^, to aflift the fhenicians againft the Spaniards, made that the Seat 

 of War, which foon drew on a greater Defign - for Hamilco and Hanno being 

 impowr'd by the Senate at Carthage, manag'd the War in Spain. Both of them 

 were ambitious to difcover new Countreys. Hamilco fail'd along the Coaft of 

 Spain and Gaule, reaching to Batarvia. Hanno fteer'd Southerly, carrying thirty Very remarkable vo y - 

 thoufand Men of all Trades in his Fleet, purpofing to build a new City in &**», *io"°\L c cZa of 

 fome place or other, and got beyond the Promontory AmpeluJJum, now call'd 

 Cabo Spatil ; the River Ziloa, which waflicth the City Ar^iUa ; and the Stream 

 Lix, now hujfo, where the Poets place the Gardens of the Hefperides, in the cu- 

 ftody of a waking Dragon : From thence proceeding on his Voyage, he came 

 to an Anchor in the Mouth of the River Subur, at this day call'd Subu ; and 

 afterwards before the City Sola, now call'd Salle, at that time made very dan- 

 gerous by the voracious Beads in the neighboring Woods : At laft the Fleet 

 reach'd the Foot of the leffer Atlas, which ends at the Point Chaunaria, by the 

 Modern Navigators call'd Cabo Now, becaufe it was judg'd, that none could 

 fcape with Life, that durft adventure to fteer beyond Chaunaria ; yet Hanno 

 fail'd between Talma, one of the Canary-IJlands, and the Promontory HZojadoris, 

 towards the pointed Coaft call'd then Cornu Hefperium, but now Qape Verd, in 

 the River Jfama, by Caftaldus call'd Omirabi : Here he found horrible Crocco- 



• D % diles, 



Salt-IJlands how long 

 known. 



Joan. Mariana de Rtb. 

 Htjpa*. lib. 1 . cap. 10. 



