Kitap 2
3.4
However, he carried the prow into the market-place, and exhibited it to the pilots, who recognised it as being come from Gades.Cadiz. The merchants [of that place] employing large vessels, but the lesser traders small ships, which they style horses, from the figures of that animal borne on the prow, and in which they go out fishing around Maurusia,Western Mauritania, the modern kingdom of Fez. as far as the Lixus.This river is now named Lucos, and its mouth, which is about 30 leagues distant from Cadiz, is called Larais or Larache. Some of the pilots professed to recognise the prow as that of a vessel which had sailed beyond the river Lixus, but had not returned.Humboldt, Cosmos ii. 489, note, mentions the remains of a ship of the Red Sea having been brought to the coast of Crete by westerly currents.
