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Avienus also has the following:

Farther to the west from these Pillars there is boundless sea. Himilco
relates that . . . none has sailed ships over these waters, because pro-
pelling winds are lacking . . . likewise because darkness screens the
light of day with a sort of clothing, and because a fog always conceals the



10 E. L. Stevenson: Portolan Charts, Publs. Hispanic Soc. of Amcr. No. 82. New
York, 1911, pp. 5-6.

21 A. E. Nordenskiold: Periplus: An Essay on the Early History of Charts and
Sailing-Directions, transl. by F. A. Bather, Stockholm, 1897. P- 8.

"Fridtjof Nansen: In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times,
transl. by A. G. Chater, 2 vols., New York, 1911; reference in Vol. i, p. 38.

n Ibid., pp. 40-41.



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