1 6 DISCOVERIES OF THE ANCIENTS. 
his vessel rendered it impossible to proceed far- 
ther. On his return, he applied to Bocchus, 
king of Mauritania, and endeavoured to inspire 
that barbarian with his own zeal for maritime disco- 
very. He appeared to have succeeded, and or- 
ders were given to equip an expedition ; but Eu- 
doxus was privately assured, that the mind of the 
king had been poisoned against him, and that the 
mariners were privately instructed to abandon him 
on an uninhabited island. This report, true or 
false, induced him to make his escape from Mau- 
ritania. His next recourse was to Iberia, where 
he actually succeeded in equipping an expedition 
as considerable as his first one, and better calcu- 
lated for the voyage. It consisted of one vessel, 
adapted for navigating in the open sea ; and an- 
other for reconnoitring the coast. They were 
provided also with seed and labouring utensils, in 
the view of raising a harvest on the voyage, in the 
manner reported to have been done by the Pheni- 
cians. At this point, unfortunately, the narrative 
of Strabo stops short, and leaves us totally in the 
dark as to the result of this new expedition. It is 
true, Cornelius Nepos is said to have asserted, # 
that Eudoxus actually did make the circuit of Afri- 
ca, but having stated his departure as from the Red 
Sea, could not have had in view the voyage in 
* Mela, III. 9- 
