14) DISCOVERIES OF THE ANCIENTS. 
den with wealth ; of the greater part of which he 
complains that the king had stripped him. How- 
ever, a new expedition was fitted out for the same 
destination. In this voyage the wind drove him 
upon the eastern coast of Africa, where he landed 
at several points, carried on sonie trade, and held 
considerable intercourse with the natives. A desire 
to perform the circuit of that continent seems here 
to have seized his mind, and to have become ever 
after its ruling passion. It so happened, that he 
found here the remnant of a wreck, said to have 
come from the westward, and which consisted 
merely of the point of a prow, on which a horse 
was carved. Other passions besides jealousy, 
when they engross the whole soul, convert " trifles 
light as air" into " confirmations strong." This 
prow, being carried to Alexandria, and shewn to 
some natives of Cadiz, was declared by them to 
resemble exceedingly those attached to a particu- 
lar species of fishing vessels, which frequently re- 
sorted to the coast of Mauritania ; and they added, 
that some of these vessels had actually gone to the 
westward, and never returned. All doubt seemed 
now at an end ; and Eudoxus thought only of ef- 
fecting this grand expedition. Conceiving himself 
injured by Cleopatra, who had now succeeded 
Evergetes, he determined no longer to rely on the 
patronage of courts, but repaired to Cadiz, a 
great commercial city, where the prospect of a 
