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pliky's katueal history. 
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up ; it is tlien tlie scene of the gambols of the JEgipans* and 
the Satyr crew, while it re-echoes with the notes of the flute 
and the pipe, and the clash of drums and cymbals. All this 
is what authors of high character have stated, in addition to 
the labours which Hercules and Perseus there experienced. 
The space which intervenes before you arrive at this moun- 
tain is immense, and the country quite unknown. 
There formerly existed some Commentaries written by 
Hanno^, a Carthaginian general, who was commanded, in 
the most flourishing times of the Punic state, to explore 
the sea-coast of Africa. The greater part of the G-reek 
and E;oman writers have followed him, and have related, 
among other fabulous stories, that many cities there were 
founded by him, of which no remembrance, nor yet the 
slightest vestige, now exists. 
While Scipio ^milianus held the command in Sicily, 
Polybius the historian received a fleet from him for the 
purpose of proceeding on a voyage of discovery in this part 
of the world. He relates, that beyond^ Mount Atlas, pro- 
1 Or " Goat-Pens probably another name for the Fauni, or Fauns. 
More usually, there is but one JEgipan mentioned,— the son, according 
to Hyginus, of Zeus or Jupiter, and a goat, — or of Zeus and ^ga, the 
wife of Pan. As a foundation for one part of the stories here men- 
tioned, Brotier suggests the fact, that as the Kabyles, or mountain tribes, 
are in the habit of retiring to their dwelhngs and reposing during the 
heat of the day, it would not, consequently, be improbable that they 
would devote the night to then' amusements, hghting up fires, and 
dancing to the music of drums and cymbals. 
2 Under liis name we still possess a " Periplus," or account of a 
voyage round a part of Libya. The work was originally written in 
Punic, but what has come down to us is a Grreek translation. We fail, 
however, to discover any means by wliich to identify him with any one 
of the many Carthaginians of the same name. Some writers call 
him king, and others dux, or imperator of the Carthaginians ; from 
which wo may infer, that he held the office of suffetes. This expedition 
has by some been placed as far back as the time of the Trojan w^ar, or of 
Hesiod, wliile others again place it as late as the reign of Agathocles. 
"Falconer, Bougainville, and Gail, place the time of Hanno at about 
B.Q. 570, while other critics identify him with Hanno, the father or son 
of Hamilcar, who was killed at Himera, B.C. 480. PHny often makes 
mention of him ; more particularly see B. vhi. c. 21. 
* 2 M. G-ossehn thinks that the spot here indicated was at the south- 
western extremity of the Atlas range, and upon the northern frontier of 
the Desert of Zahara. 
