EUDOXUS. 
IS 
could not fail to excite the highest interest. On 
his way from Alexandria he passed by Marseilles, 
and a number of the other maritime states, where 
he loudly announced his intention, and invited all 
who were animated by any spirit of enterprise to 
take a share in its execution. He accordingly 
succeeded in fitting out an expedition on a very 
large scale, and equipped almost with regal pomp. 
He had one large and two small vessels ; on board 
of which were embarked, not only provisions and 
merchandize, but medical men, persons skilled in 
various arts, and even a large band of musicians, 
A crew composed chiefly of volunteers, full, 
doubtless, of extravagant hopes, were not likely 
to submit to regular discipline, or to endure cheer- 
fully the hardships of such a voyage. They soon 
became fatigued with navigating in the open sea, 
and insisted that Eudoxus should draw near to the 
coast. Here the event happened which that na- 
vigator had foreseen. The ships struck upon a 
sand-bank, and could not be got off. The cargo, 
however, and even part of the timber belonging 
to them, were brought on shore ; and, from their 
materials, a new vessel was constructed on a 
smaller scale, with which Eudoxus resumed his 
voyage. He soon after came to nations, speak- 
ing, as he fancied, the same language with those 
whom he had seen on the eastern coast. The 
smallness of his vessel rendered it impossible to 
