Excerpt from The Rise of British West Africa: Comprising the Early History of the Colony of Sierra Leone, the Gambia, Lagos, Gold Coast, Etc. Etc

A voyage of three days from the Chariot of the Gods brought them to another bay with an island. Here a new phenomenon greeted their eyes. The inhabitants, human-like in form, were covered from head to foot with Shaggy hair - the ourang outang - to which they gave the name Gorilla, a word of African origin. Three females of these monsters were chased and caught, and their Skins carried to Carthage as presents to Hanno.

Various have been the theories that cluster about this voyage, both as regards the phenomena that attended it and its terminus. Most of the phenomena have, however, been found by modern travellers to correspond with Hanno's description, although there is still a divergence of opinion as regards the terminus, some holding it to have been Morocco, others the mouth of the Gambia Major Rennell believes that Hanno passed Sierra Leone, and that the Bay of Gorilla was the Sherbro Island, which would harmonise exactly with the description of coast-line passed on that memorable voyage.

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