Notes and Queries, Number 23, April 6, 1850

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 23, April 6, 1850

NOTES

PERIPLUS OF HANNO THE CARTHAGINIAN

POPE VINDICATED

"THE SUPPER OF THE LORDE."

FOLK LORE

"THE WILD HUNTSMAN

ON AUTHORS AND BOOKS, NO. VI

QUERIES

NICHOLAS BRETON'S "CROSSING OF PROVERBS."

THE SWORD CALLED CURTANA

IS THE DOMBEC THE DOMESDAY OF ALFRED?

MINOR QUERIES

REPLIES

THE ARABIC NUMERALS AND CIPHER

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES

DERIVATIONS OF "NEWS."

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES

MISCELLANIES

MINIMUM DE MALIS

CHARLES DEERING, M.D

MISCELLANEOUS

NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES

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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS

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I am not sufficiently Quixotic to attempt a defence of the Carthaginians on the western coast of Africa, or any where else, but I submit that the accusation brought against them by Mr. S. Bannister, formerly Attorney-General of New South Wales, is not sustained by the only record we possess of Hanno's colonising expedition. That gentleman, in his learned Records of British Enterprise beyond Sea, just published, says, in a note, p. xlvii.:—

"The first nomade tribe they reached was friendly, and furnished Hanno with interpreters. At length they discovered a nation whose language was unknown to the interpreters. These strangers they attempted to seize; and, upon their resistance, they took three of the women, whom they put to death, and carried their skins to Carthage" (Geogr. Græci Minores, Paris, 1826, p. 115.).

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In that of Boispreaux (Lond. 1742), it is simply rendered—

No attempt is made to translate the quisquilia.

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