108 EXPEDITIONS BEFORE ALEXANDER. [CHAP.
same sight may be seen on a smaller scale on the plains in Greece
during the autumn, The burning mountain of
Mt. Theon , . ,° __ - , , . , .
ochema which Hanno speaks, and which, he says, was
(Mt. sagres). ^^ ^QQn Qchema, or the Chariot of the Gods,
was no volcano, as Mela and Pliny supposed it to be, but simply
a lofty summit whose slopes were on fire. It is now called
Mt. Sagres, and is described as a conical mountain of great height,
forming the marked feature of this part of the coast, which other-
wise is perfectly flat1.
A voyage of three days to the southward of this brought the
the Carthaginians to the Southern Horn, a bay which
Horn (Sher- in certain points bore a peculiar resemblance to the
Western Horn, for it contained a similar island,
with an enclosed space of water surrounding a smaller island3.
This bay, which now bears the name of Sherboro Sound, lies
a little to the south of Sierra Leone; and the larger island here
mentioned is called Macauley Island, and on its western coast
embraces a smaller island on three sides. The narrative con-
cludes with the following remarkable incident, of which the last-
named island was the scene. "The place," it says, "was full
of savage people, but the majority of them were
women, whose bodies were covered with hair; these
our interpreters called Gorillae. When we pursued
them, we were unable to catch the men, all of whom escaped,
since they were accustomed to precipitous places and defended
themselves with stones. Three women, however, we secured,
but these refused to accompany us, and scratched and bit those
who conducted them. So we killed them and flayed them, and
brought their skins to Carthage8." It is through this passage
that the name Gorilla has been introduced into natural history,
and it seems probable that the creatures which are here de-
scribed were large anthropoid apes, such as are still found near
Sierra Leone. Beyond the Southern Horn the explorers did not
1 See Rennell, Geography of J&crodotus, p. 734.
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