Hanno the Navigator

Hanno the Navigator of Carthage lived around -500, so what little we know of him has been transcribed from ancient Greek tablets.

There is a mention here of an encounter with a particularly "Hirsute tribe" (Hairy people), which according to one contemporary account may actually have been a colony of gorillas! Still, he was the first to cross the mighty Pillars of Hercules and for that, let's talk about the exploration of west Africa.

The exploration of Hanno from the Pillars of Hercules to central Africa... today "Congo" where he probably saw the "Gorilla people".