Sierra Leone and the neighbouring Sherboro island, where he found "wild
men and women covered with hair," called by the interpreters
"gorillas."[354] At that point the ships turned back, apparently for
want of provisions.

[Footnote 351: Rawlinson's _History of Phoenicia_, pp. 105,
418; Pseudo-Aristotle, _Mirab. Auscult._, 146; Velleius
Paterculus, i. 2, Sec. 6.]

[Footnote 352: Hanno, _Periplus_, in Mueller, _Geographi Graeci
Minores_, tom. i. pp. 1-14. Of two or three commanders named
Hanno it is uncertain which was the one who led this
expedition, and thus its date has been variously assigned from
570 to 470 B. C.]

[Footnote 353: For the determination of these localities see
Bunbury, _op. cit._ vol. i. pp. 318-335. There is an
interesting Spanish description of Hanno's expedition in
Mariana, _Historia de Espana_, Madrid, 1783, tom. i. pp.
89-93.]

[Footnote 354: The sailors pursued them, but did not capture
any of the males, who scrambled up the cliffs out of their
reach. They captured three females, who bit and scratched so
fiercely that it was useless to try to take them away. So they
killed them and took their skins home to Carthage. _Periplus_,
xviii. According to Pliny (_Hist. Nat._, vi. 36) these skins
were hung up as a votive offering in the temple of Juno (i. e.
Astarte or Ashtoreth: see Apuleius, _Metamorph._, xi. 257;
Gesenius, _Monumenta Phoenic._, p. 168), where they might have
been seen at any time before the Romans destroyed the city.]

[Sidenote: Voyages of Sataspes and Eudoxus.]

No other expedition in ancient times is known to have proceeded so far
south as Sierra Leone. Two other voyages upon this Atlantic coast are
mentioned, but without definite details. The one was that of Sataspes
(about 470 B. C.), narrated by Herodotus, who merely tells us that a
coast was reached where undersized men, clad in palm-leaf garments, fled
to the hills at sight of the strange visitors.[355] The other was that
of Eudoxus (about 85 B. C.), related by Posidonius, the friend and
teacher of Cicero. The story is that this Eudoxus, in a voyage upon the
east coast of Africa, having a philological turn of mind, wrote down the
words of some of the natives whom he met here and there along the shore.
He also picked