[Sabertooth]

The account here of the journey of Hanno does not make sense to me.

After passing out of the Mediterranean through the Pillars of Hercules, he comes to Cerne, which is supposed to be Somalia? That's on the wrong side of the continent. Then he goes to Western Africa (Gambia or Cameroon) and captures gorillas? Did he take the trans-African highway?

[blam]

The Voyage Of Hanno

[VadeRetro]

That's on the wrong side of the continent.

Bingo! An inexcusable error of some sort. Intriguing tale, but lousy scholarship by the writer.

[Fedora]

I was reading it as they went through the Pillars of Hercules, circumnavigated Africa to somewhat past Cerne/Ethiopia, and then went back the way they had come ("They returned to Cerne and sailed further south.") in small legs at port stops they had previously identified during the initial circumnavigation (I'm assuming), which is how they got back to Gambia/Cameroon.