CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. 
INTRODUCTION. 
CHAPTER I. 
DISCOVERIES OF THE ANCIENTS. 
Division of the Ancient World into Continents. — Medi- 
terranean Coast.— ^Influence of poetical ideas. — Curiosi- 
ty of the Ancients respecting the interior. — Attempts to 
circumnavigate Africa ; Phenicians under Necho ; Satas- 
pes ; Eudoxus. — Voyages along the Western Coast : 
Hanno ; Scylax ; Polybius Eastern Coast : Eveme- 
rus ; Arrian*s Periplus. — Attempts to penetrate into 
the interior ; the Nasamones ; Cambyses ; Alexander ; 
Roman Expeditions, - P^^^ 
CHAPTER II. 
DISCOVERIES DURING THE MIDDLE AGES. 
The Arabians. — Their Entrance into Africa ; their Esta- 
blishment on the Niger. — Kingdoms of Ghana, Wangara, 
