CHAPTER I.
CELEBRATED TRAVELLERS BEFORE THE CHRISTIAN ERA.HANNO, 505; HERODOTUS, 484; PYTHEAS, 340; NEARCHUS, 326;EUDOXUS, 146; CÆSAR, 100; STRABO, 50.
Hanno, the Carthaginian—Herodotus visits Egypt, Lybia, Ethiopia, Phoenicia, Arabia, Babylon, Persia, India, Media, Colchis, the Caspian Sea, Scythia, Thrace, and Greece—Pytheas explores the coasts of Iberia and Gaul, the English Channel, the Isle of Albion, the Orkney...
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