Identifier: generalbiographyv5pt1aiki (find matches)
Title: General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order
Year: 1818 (1810s)
Authors: Aikin, John, 1747-1822 Enfield, William, 1741-1797
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: London : Smeeton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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vers.Hlst.—A. HAiSNO, a Carthaginian commander, cele-brated for his voyage of di.scovery, is said byPliny to have lived during the most flourishingperiod of his republic ; and, by order of thestate, to have undertaken the circumnavigationof Africa, which he completed from the straitsof Gibraltar, to the extremity of Arabia.Mela, who mentions the same expedition, onlyrelates, that he sailed round a great part ofAfrica, and that his provisions failed him,rather than the sea. He drew up an account ofhis voyage in the Punic language, which wastranslated into Greek, but it appears to havebeen in no great credit for veracity. He is saidto have brought home the skins of certain hairyfemale savages, whom lie met with upon a largeisland. This story, if true, probably refers torsome large species of ape. A short work,under the name of the Periplus of Hanno,is extant, and vias published first by Frobcn, in1533. Other editions have since been made;and it is continued in the first volume of Hud-
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