4.66 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



my. The necemty, however, of this voyage appeared ftill 

 great enough to make Cleopatra his widow project a fe- 

 cond to the fame place, and greater preparations were made 

 than for the former one. 



But Eudoxus, trying experiments probably about the 

 eourfes of the trade-winds, loll his paflage, and was thrown 

 upon the coaft of Ethiopia ; where, having landed, and made 

 himfelf agreeable to the natives, he brought home to Egypt 

 a particular defcription of that country and its produce, 

 which furnifhed all the difcovery neceflary to inftmct the 

 Ptolemies in every thing that related to the ancient trade of 

 Arabia. In the courfe of the voyage, Eudoxus dif covered 

 the part of the prow of a vefTel which had been broken off 

 by a ilorm. The figure of a horfe made it an object of in- 

 quiry ; and fome of the failors on board, who had been em- 

 ployed in European voyages, immediately knew this wreck 

 to be part of one of thofe veiTels ufed to trade en the weftern 

 ocean. Eudoxus * inftantly perceived all the importance of 

 the difcovery, which amounted to nothing lefs, than that 

 there was a paiTage round Africa from the Indian to the At- 

 lantic Ocean. Full of this thought, he returned to Egypt > 

 and, having fhewn the- prow of his vefTel to European mip- 

 mafcers, they all declared that this had been part of a vef- 

 fel which had belonged to Cadiz, in Spain., 



This difcovery, great as it was, was to none of more im 

 portance than to Eudoxus ; for, fome time after, failing 

 under the difpleafure of Ptolemy Lathyrus, Vlllth of that 



name, 



* Plin.. Nat. HifL lib. 2. cap.. 67^. 



