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ζέφυρον: properly ‘westward’; but if it be translated strictly, the travellers would have had nothing but deserts and ultimately the Atlantic before them (v.s.). The word, however, is decisive against the theory of the journey, which makes the explorers only reach some river running into Lake Tchad; this would be due south of the Fezzan.

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