
From the Vault: The Sargasso Sea
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The Dark West Imean T This Great Ocean
iReporter: The dark west imean t this vast, stormy ocean. You don't know if you travel out on it, would you even reach land if you kept sailing? I mean, it was not known. However, conliff writes that phoenician sailors were more adventurous in general, in pushing westward. And one of these notable sailors was a carthaginian navigator named himilco who lived probably some in the fifth century b c e.
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