Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-22

"Hurrah!" said the cook, whose name was
Hippo, we're almost home!"
"How do you know that% asked the Egyp-
tian mate, Thuoris.
Because here's the sand of the Great Sa-
hara. l saw it once close to Dongola."
"Dongola to you! Don't you suppose there's
any sand outside of Egypt" was the uncivil
answer.
But it was the western end of the Sahara.
The ship sailed on until it passed through
narrow place where the ocean roared.
II know where we are now!" said the
cook, "sure's you're born!'' only he said it
in Egyptian. '"This is where / came with
Commodore Zodekarch and he made me
cook him dinner of dolphin and rice. It's
the road our sailors go, to get tin, from a
place. called Cornwall, where the Brtons
live"
And the cook was right.
The ship then sailed east, along the whole
northern coast of Africa. Captain Hanno
saw great mountains inland, and occasional
villages and small vessels along the shore.
had to stop several days, because high wind
was. blowing from the south and carrying
sand with it. The people were not so black
as those at the other end of Africa, but they
were as violent.
Then they sailed south and met the desert
again; then met ships, and heard the news,
and got some provisions. and the captain got
very angry when another Phoenician sailor,
whom he knew, told him his daughter had
married without waiting for his leave.
"The hpssyi" said Captain Hanno "Pll
II rather guess not!" said Hippo, delighted
to think he could soon have some rice and
lentils TO eat. you'd have to take her your
self, and don't fancy you care to go back
where we've been"
Nor did he.
And then the little ship that had sailed so
far, where no Egyptians or Phoenicians had
ever been before, entered the mouth of the
great Nile and sailed by other boats and
reached one city after another until it came
to Memphis, where King Pharaoh was living
The captain sent his mate to tell the king
he had got back.
"Well, he's been gone long enough to have
found the fountains of the Nile" said Pha-
raoh, who had almost forgotten about him.
Bring the man here"
what did you fnd?" he asked Captain
Hanno, as soon as he came.
eve found the ends and sides of all Africa,
your majesty, and found that the canal makes
it great island. We found pigmies, who are
no bigger thar, children, and gorullai, who are
giants covered with hair, and places where
there are great rivers, and Others where there
are ENORMOUS mountains and deserts and
'Well, WE'LL Write it all down and | will
send for you to read it. l am having sa-
cred ibis and crocodile embalmed, and must
attend to their burial in the pyramid of
Cheops."
Hanno went and wrote book he called
the "Periplus." It told all that he had seen
and done, and heard and spent. He was
paid for going and went back to Phoenicia /;
and afterward sailed in the Mediterranean.
Another man, called Herodotus, came from
Greece almost two hundred years afterwards,
to learn what the Egyptians knew, and read
Hanno's story, and told it at home and made
it familiar in other countries
Hanno and Herodotus and Pharaoh and
the cook, Hippo, and Thuoris, and all the
rest died long ago, and some were made into
mummies. But Hanno's story lives and will
always live.
1t is the first account of real voyage and
exploring expedition after Noah's, and though
there are many things in it we can't believe
there are more that have proved true.