This is the account of Hanno, king of Carthage, about his voyage to the Libyan lands…we reached the Lixos, a large river flowing from Libya. The Lixites, a nomadic tribe, were pasturing their herds beside it. We remained with them for some time and became friends.
-Periplus of Hanno, 5th Century BCE, partially translated from a lost Punic inscription into Greek
According to Arrian of Nicomedia (c. 86-160 CE), Hanno journeyed for 35 days, nearly the 40 days of KhairAllah on the Darb. Hanno voyaged by sea and KhairAllah by sand, but both encountered wondrous things along their way. Volcanos and gorillas by the former, men who sleep in bags and urinate standing erect by the latter. And both had their personal stories garbled in faulty translations by well-meaning but linguistically incompetent foreigners.