Ocean's Story; or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries Maritime Adventures, Achievements, Explorations, Discoveries and Inventions; and of the Rise and Progress of Ship-Building and Ocean Navigation, from the Ark to the Iron Steamships

CHAPTER IV.--The Ships, Commerce, and Navigation of the

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Phoenicians--Their Trade with Ophir--Sidon and Tyre--Their Voyage round Africa--New Tyre--A Patriotic Phoenician Captain--The Egyptians as a Maritime People--Their Ships and Commerce--The Jews--Their Geography--Ideas upon the Shape of the Earth--The World as known to the Hebrews 46