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Title: Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ...
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Goodrich, Frank B. (Frank Boott), 1826-1894
Subjects: Discoveries in geography Voyages and travels
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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Sataspes obtained a vessel and recruited a crew inEgypt, and, sailing through the Pillars of Hercules, bent hiscourse southward. He is represented as having beat about formany weeks, and probably reached the shores of the GreatSaharan Desert. The aspect of this formidable and tempest- 70 MAN UPON THE SEA. lashed coast might well appall an amateur navigator accustomedto the luxurious indolence of a Persian court. He seems tohave preferred crucifixion to circumnavigation, for he at oncemeasured back his course to the Straits. He gave an incoherentaccount of his adventures to Xerxes, attributing his failure tothe interference of an insurmountable obstacle, the nature ofwhich he was unable to explain. Xerxes would listen to noexcuse, and ordered the original sentence to be executed forth-with. Authorities differ as to the fate of Sataspes,—one assert-ing that he suffered the ignominious death to which he was con-demned, and another alleging that he made his escape to theisland of Samos.
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THE SACRED PROMONTORY. A colony which had been established at Massilia—now Mar-seilles—about six hundred years before Christ, by the Phocians,was, in the year 340 B.C., at the height of its commercial pros-perity. The citizens, being desirous of extending their maritimerelations, sent, at this period, upon an expedition to the North of MAN UPON THE SEA. 71 Europe, through the Pillars of Hercules, a learned geographerand astronomer by the name of Pytheas. He started with asingle ship, the finances of the city not permitting a larger outlayof means. He passed the Pillars on the sixteenth day from Massilia;and on the twentieth he arrived at the Sacred Promontory, theextreme western point of Iberia or Spain. A temple toHercules had been erected at this spot. The inhabitants of thepromontory declared, during the time of Pytheas, and, indeed,for two hundred years afterwards, that as the sun plunged atevening into the sea, they.heard a hissing like that of a red-hot body suddenly dropped

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