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ta Carthage. Here the narrative stops by saying, 
that the farther progress of the expedition was 
arrested by the want of provisions. 
Such are the leading features of this celebrated 
voyage, than which none has afforded, in modern 
times, more ample room for the speculations of the 
learned. Many of the circumstances, which wore 
at first a marvellous aspect, have been found to 
correspond with the observations of modern tra- 
vellers. The fires and nocturnal symphonies re- 
present the habits prevalent in all the negro states ; 
repose during the day, music and dancing pro- 
longed through the night. The flames, which 
seemed to sweep over an expanse of territory, 
might be occasioned by the practice, equally ge- 
neral, of setting fire, at a certain season of the 
year, to the grass and shrubs ; and the Gorillce 
were evidently that remarkable species of ape to 
which we give the name of oran-outang. Extreme 
difference of opinion prevails, however, as to the 
extent of the coast traversed, and the objects to 
which the different respective parts of the descrip- 
tion apply. According to Major Rennell, the 
island of Cerne is Arguin, the great river is the 
Senegal, the islands are the archipelago of the 
Bissagos, and the whole voyage reached a little 
beyond Sierra Leone.* M. Gosselin, on the con- 
* Geography of HerodotuS; Sect. 16 — ^26. 
