The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-11-20

had routes to the Adriatic and the
mouth OF tho Rhone. II is also to be
noted that It was n PhGnician expe-
dition which in the reign OF Pharaoh Necho.
b. c. U11 800. after tho decline OF tho Phrni-
clan maritime power. accomplished the Ieat
OF cIrcum ma vignting Africa by way OF tho led
Sea. So. too. Hanfo. Carthnginan. nos only
guided tho Punic fleet around tho parts OF
Iibya which border on the Atlantic. but has
been credited with reaching tho Indian Ocean
by tho same route rs that which Vasco de
Cana successfully followed in 1854 The OBJ
ject Of IInuno's expedition. as stated In his
rerplus. was to found Lilly Phuniclnn cities
bcyor I'd the Pillars OF Hercules How far south
his voyage actually extended along the A1ri-
can coast is matter OF disputed interprcta-
ton: the original work Is lost. IL Is suill-
cie,t to note that he pursued precisely
tho samc route which led about the close
OF the fifteenth century to tho discovery
VI Brazil. Aristotle applies tho name OF An
tilla" to n Cnrthngininn discovery, ana Diodo-
rus Siculus assigns to tho tartha!iniars inc
knowledge fan island in tho ocean tho secret
OF which they reserved as n refuge to which
they could withdraw should fate ever compel
then, to desert their African home. Sir Dan
icl wilson con s.1n,S il hv no means nhreason-
npic To identity THIS mysterious island With
onc of the \yorcs which lie only 800 miles
from tho coast of PORTUGAL 1t is truc that no
her reference to them is madc Ivy either
Greek or Roman writer's. hut the discovery "t
nu n"r"us Carthngniaa coins ut 'or'o. inc
extreme nurthwesteriv island" tho group
leaves little room t. uutiht taat thrT were VS.
i,st ny PAM. voytgrrs. rhrrc is, therefore,
nothing cXtruvagant in tho assumption that
we have here tho "ANtilIa' o' AiistoIlo
Looking bnck. then. into tho dawn OF history
with the MD II what fresh i.ht recent dlS"o'-
cries have thrown rpon It. this seems 10 claim
recognition that in that rem"'" cia tho east
crn Mediterranean WAS a centre Of maritime
enterprise such rs had 10 equal anon. the
nations Of antiquity. and vas never again
paraliclcd unit the rise OF thu Venetian AMI
Genoe.e republics. Even in the decndrncc oil
rhunicin hor maritime skill remained I'M
matched. as we have Just sccn that the en-
COMMUNICATION Of Africa which. when IL was
rrrentcd in tho fifteenth century. was con-
sideloL an achievement fully cluailinG that I"
toiumbus-htd Ion. before icon accomplished
hy ph rnicinn mariners. Seeing. then. that the
first steps in navigation wclr taken IN an az"
lying beyond all mcnl"ry. ana that III" oues1
traditions assign rs ORIGIN 10 tho re-
morka,!. rcollo who figure alike III carly
sacred and protano history rs un"Gu"lled III
thcir rut.rnriS, on tho sea, what impede
century mat did not sim cNis, in y. ID. 1910
to render iniorruurs" hctw""n thn Eastern
and Western 1IcmisrhHrrs imross ib!ct Amer
lea was no furthc. oh n the golden age OF
Tyre than in tina, :: Henry the Navigator
We know what wetn the ships o! tho Morse
rovers. VIII, mn,!c their way along tho Ameri-
can coas; about tie beginning o. the eleventh
century; they were mrr" Eallcys, not larger
than a good fishing smurk and FAR inferior TO
1t in dec: and rigging. For compass they had
ONLY :hr samn old " PhI'nici?r STAR which
tr,n the birth of navigation has guided the
ma liners OF the ancient WORD over tho gath
less deep. As 10 :hc COMPASS. We icrcciErho"
l:t,r that awaited on recalling the fact that
lie Portuguese Admira, tahra!. when follow
i'm. on tn,, ruut. al Nasco de iara. WAS car
rich b. the equatorial current :" far out OF his
intended cnnrsr int II" found him- self in sight
Of a strar - ,an,; i'll ~ ;. IA. an" c" a'cideni-
nlly discovered brazil and the new world Of
the West. not Ivy means Of the mariners com.
pass. lut in ,ii,c Of Is Gu.!ancc. lis thus
obyioas that tne discovery Of America wou!L
have fol owed IA a result Of the voyage o.!
Nasro dc Gama round the Cape OF Good HOVE.
wholly rp"adently Of that al tO,umtue.
NhM b".c.l lEc Portuguese Admiral in y. d.
1869 WAS an experience that miGhs Just as
readily have fallen to tho lot Of the IhDuician
Admiral of Pharaoh Nccho il y. {. 600. or TO
tho ruuic uaunr. OF To- other rally navis.a-
tors: anu may. in fact. have repeatedly ""-
Cured to Ilo'li:crranean adrcHture:S Oh tho
Atlantic in Ode. centuries.