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he complains that the king had stripped him. 
However, 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 some trade, 
and held considerable intercourse with the natives. 
A disire 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 hap- 
pened, 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 jea- 
joiisy, when they engross the whole soul, convert 
trides 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 add- 
ed, 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 effecting this grand expedition. Conceiving 
himself injured by Cleopatra, who had now suc- 
ceeded Evergetes, he determined no longer to 
rely on the patronage of courts, but repaired to 
Cadiz, a great commercial city, where the pro- 
spect of a new and unobstructed route to India 
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