Talk:Himilco the Navigator
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[edit] My edit. December 3, 2005
I've added more about the Iberian sea route Himilco found for Carthage and his tales of sea monsters, as well as fixing some grammar.
[edit] Straight West
When Himilco's voyage is described by Pliny, the phrase "to explore the parts beyond Europe" is used; this leaves it oblivious as to whether he went south to Africa, north to Iberia, or simply west. When the voyage is written on in a complete account given by an anonymous writer, large drifts of seaweed and extremely calm wind are noted. This seems to hint at his moving west into the Atlantic; the seaweed being the Sargasso Sea (I do not know of any Atlantic weed drifts other than the Sargasso Sea prodigious enough to "after the manner of a thicket, hold the prow back") and the calmness the Doldrums beyond the trade winds. BFieldingD 20:50, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
