We did not sail further on, our provisions failing us." The style of this short work, though exceedingly simple and inartificial, is not without its merits.

It has the directness, the perspicuity, and the liveliness of Caesar's Commentaries or of the Duke of Wellington's Despatches.

Montesquieu[1317] says of it:--"Hanno's Voyage was written by the very man who performed it.

His recital is not mingled with ostentation.

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity, because they receive more honour from facts than words." If we may take the work as a specimen of the accounts which Phoenician explorers commonly gave of their travels in unknown regions, we must regard them as having set a pattern which modern travellers would do well to follow.