 On their return, they declared — I for my part do not believe them, but perhaps others may — that in sailing round Libya they had the sun upon their right hand. In this way was the extent of Libya first discovered.  The Geographical Journal - Page 2031901Full view - About this book
 | Herodotus - Greece - 1866 - 486 pages
...declared — I for my part do not believe them, but perhaps others may — that in sailing round Libya they had the sun upon their right hand.' In this way was the extent of Libya first discovered. 43. Next to these Phœnicians the Carthaginians, according to their own accounts,... | |
 | Foxhall Alexander Parker - Navies - 1876 - 288 pages
...declared (I, for my part, do not believe them, but perhaps others may) that, in sailing round Libya, they had the sun upon their right hand. In this way was the extent of Libya first discovered/' About two centuries after their voyage around Africa, the Phoenicians, stretching... | |
 | Charles Henry Eden - Africa - 1880 - 356 pages
...declared — I for my part do not believe them, but perhaps others may — that in sailing round Libya they had the sun upon their right hand. In this way was the extent of Libya first discovered." * This wonderful event must have taken place some 175 years before the time... | |
 | C. E. Bourne - Africa - 1883 - 318 pages
...declared—I for my part do not believe them, but perhaps others may—that in sailing round Libya they had the sun upon their right hand. In this way was the extent of Libya first discovered." The light of the sun upon their right hand, which of course would be very... | |
 | Henry Fanshawe Tozer - Classical geography - 1897 - 450 pages
...declared — I for my part do not believe them, but perhaps others may — that in sailing round Libya they had the sun upon their right hand. In this way was the extent of Libya first discovered '." Herodotus does not inform us from what source he obtained this story, but... | |
 | Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman - America - 1904 - 442 pages
...voyage home. On their return they declared — I for my part do not believe it — that on sailing they had the sun upon their right hand. In this way was the extent of Libya discovered." The great extent of the African continent ha\ing been ascertained, it is extremely... | |
 | George McCall Theal - Bantu-speaking peoples - 1910 - 456 pages
...declared — I for my part do not believe them, but perhaps others may — that in sailing round Libya they had the sun upon their right hand. In this way was the extent of Libya first discovered." * The Phoenicians were competent at that time to make voyages of considerable... | |
 | Homer, Samuel Butler - 1922 - 386 pages
...for my part do not believe them, but perhaps others may — that in sailing round Libya [ie Africa] they had the sun upon their right hand. In this way was the extent of Libya first discovered. I take it that Eumaeus was made to have come from Syracuse because the writer... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Epic poetry, Greek - 1925 - 426 pages
...for my part do not believe them, but perhaps others may-that in sailing round Libya [/.«., Africa] they had the sun upon their right hand. In this way was the extent of Libya first discovered." I take it that Eumaeus was made to have come from Syracuse because the writer... | |
 | Napier Shaw - Meteorology - 1926 - 394 pages
...declared — I for my part do not believe them, but perhaps others may — that in sailing round Libya they had the sun upon their right hand. In this way was the extent of Libya first discovered. (Book iv, chap. 42.) Quotations of this kind, which give an insight into the... | |
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