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N Ocean. The previous impediment to trade had been the necessity of
carrying it on in small vessels, that crept cautiously along the
windings of the shore, the crews being too ignorant and too timid to
face the dangers of the open sea. But the courage of an individual at
length solved the difficulty, and dissipated the alarm. Hippalus, a
seaman in the reign of Claudius, observing the steady prevalence of the
monsoons[1], which blew over the Indian Ocean alternately from east to
west, dared to trust himself to their influence, and departing from the
coast of Arabia, he stretched fearlessly across the unknown deep, and
was carried by the winds to Muziris, a port on the coast of Malabar, the
modern Mangalore. [Footnote 1: Arabic "_maussam_." I believe the root
belongs to a dialect of India, and signifies "seasons." VINCENT fixes
the discovery of the monsoons by Hippalus about the year A.D. 47,
although it admits of no doubt that the periodical prevalence of the
winds must have been known long before, if not partially taken advantage
of by the seamen of Arabia and India. _Periplus, &c._, vol. ii, pp.
24--57.] An exploit so adventurous and so triumphant, rendered Hippalus
the Columbus of his age, and his cou