Histories

So the Phoenicians set out from the +Red Sea [42,15] (sea) Red Sea and sailed the southern sea; whenever autumn came they would put in and plant the land in whatever part of Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya they had reached, and there await the harvest;

then, having gathered the crop, they sailed on, so that after two years had passed, it was in the third that they rounded the pillars of Heracles and came to Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt. There they said (what some may believe, though I do not) that in sailing around Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya they had the sun on their right hand.[*](The detail which Herodotus does not believe incidentally confirms the story; as the ship sailed west round the Cape of +Good Hope (deserted settlement), Rio Arriba, New Mexico, United States, North and Central America Good Hope, the sun of the southern hemisphere would be on its right. Most authorities now accept the story of the circumnavigation.)

Thus was the first knowledge of Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya gained. The next story is that of the Carthaginians: for as for Sataspes son of Teaspes, an Achaemenid, he did not sail around Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya, although he was sent for that purpose; but he feared the length and loneliness of the voyage and so returned without accomplishing the task laid upon him by his mother.

For he had raped the virgin daughter of Zopyrus son of Megabyzus; and when on this charge he was to be impaled by King Xerxes, Sataspes' mother, who was Darius' sister, interceded for his life, saying that she would impose a heavier punishment on him than Xerxes;