PRIMAEVAL COMMERCE. 
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prising navigators, like many others since them, 
doubled it without being aware of its exact 
locality. About 500 years B.C., the Carthaginians 
made the next attempt at Southern geographical 
discovery, beyond the Herculean Straits ; leav- 
ing which, Hanno, in command of a fleet, pro- 
ceeded towards the South, sailing along the 
coast. Some of the ships under his command 
steered round by Mount Atlas, "the pillar of 
heaven," and doubled "the African forehead," 
as its great Western promontory was called. 
Here they beheld the various species of mon- 
keys, specially the Baboon and Ouran-Outang 
— and such was the birth of Satyrs ! 
We also receive from them a history of pri- 
maeval commerce, in their account of their bar- 
tering with the natives here. 
"Having made a signal with smoke, the 
savages placed the goods they had to dispose 
of, on the coast, and retired ; while they, having 
deposited the equivalent, removed them. If 
that which they laid down did not satisfy the 
natives, it was not removed until a suitable 
addition had been made." 
They further describe the country, "as hot 
and still by day, but resounding with the echoes 
of cymbals, gongs, and flutes, by night, when 
the mountains seemed clothed in fire, reaching 
even to the sea shore." 
