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CAIETAE PORTUS (mod. Gaeta)

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PORTUS (mod. See also:Gaeta) , an See also:ancient See also:harbour of See also:Latium adiectum, See also:Italy, in the territory of Formiae, from which it is 5 m. S.W. The name (originally Ai, rn) is generally derived from the See also:nurse of See also:Aeneas. The harbour, owing' to its See also:fine anchorage, was much in use, but the See also:place was never' a See also:separate See also:town, but always dependent on Formiae. See also:Livy mentions a See also:temple of See also:Apollo. The See also:coast of the Gulf not only between Caietae Portus and Formiae, but E. of the latter also, as See also:fat as the See also:modern See also:Monte Scauri, was a favourite summer resort (see See also:FORMIA). See also:Cicero may have had villas both at Portus Caietae and at Formiael proper, and the emperors certainly possessed See also:property at both places. After the destruction of Formiae'in A.D. 847 it became one of the most important seaports of central Italy (see GAETA). In the town are scanty remains of an See also:amphitheatre and See also:theatre: near the See also:church of La Trinita, higher up, are remains of a large See also:reservoir. There are also traces of an See also:aqueduct.

The promontory (548 ft.) is crowned by the See also:

tomb of Munatius Plancus, founder of See also:Lugudunum (mod. See also:Lyons), who died after 22 B.C. It is a circular structure of blocks of travertine 16o ft. high and 18o ft. in See also:diameter. Further inland is the so-called tomb of L. Atratinus, about too ft. in diameter. Caietae Portus was no doubt connected with the Via See also:Appia (which passed through Formiae) by a deverticulum. There seems also to have been a road See also:running W.N.W. along the precipitous coast to Speluncae (mod. Sperlonga). See E. Gesualdo Osservazioni critiche sopra la storia della Via Appia di Pratilli p. 7 (See also:Naples, 1754). (T.

As.) CAILLI$ (or CA1r.LE), RENE AUGUSTE (1799-1838), See also:

French explorer, was See also:born at Mauze, See also:Poitou, in 1799, the son of a See also:baker. The See also:reading of See also:Robinson Crusoe kindled in him a love of travel and See also:adventure, and at the See also:age of sixteen he made a voyage to See also:Senegal whence he went to See also:Guadeloupe. Returning to Senegal in 1818 he made a See also:journey to See also:Bondu to carry supplies to a See also:British expedition then in that See also:country. See also:Ill with See also:fever he was obliged to go back to See also:France, but in 1824 was again in Senegal with the fixed See also:idea of penetrating to See also:Timbuktu. He spent eight months with the Brakna " See also:Moors " living See also:north of Senegal See also:river, learning Arabic and being taught, as a convert, the See also:laws and customs of See also:Islam. He laid his project of reaching Timbuktu before the See also:governor of Senegal, but receiving no encouragement went to Sierra Leone where the British authorities made him See also:superintendent of an See also:indigo See also:plantation. Having saved go he joined a See also:Mandingo See also:caravan going inland. He was dressed as a Mussulman, and gave out that he was an Arab from See also:Egypt who had been carried off by the French to Senegal and was desirous of regaining his own country. Starting from Kakundi near See also:Boise on the Rio See also:Nunez on 19th of See also:April 1827, he travelled See also:east along the hills of Futa Jallon, passing the See also:head streams of the Senegal and See also:crossing the Upper See also:Niger at Kurussa. Still going east he came to the See also:Kong See also:highlands, where at a place called See also:Time he was detained five months by illness. Resuming his journey ' The two places are sufficiently See also:close for the one See also:villa to have See also:borne both names; but See also:Mommsen (Corp. Inscrip.

See also:

Lat. x., See also:Berlin, 1883, p. 603) prefers to differentiate them. in See also:January 1828 he went north-east and gained the See also:city of See also:Jenne, whence he continued his journey to Timbuktu by See also:water. After spending a fortnight (loth April-4th May) in Timbuktu he joined a caravan crossing the See also:Sahara to See also:Morocco, reaching See also:Fez on the 12th of See also:August. From See also:Tangier he returned to France. He had been preceded at Timbuktu by a British officer, See also:Major See also:Gordon See also:Laing, but Laing had been murdered (18'26) on leaving the city and Caillie was the first to accomplish the journey in safety. He was awarded the See also:prize of 1400 offered by the See also:Geographical Society of See also:Paris to the first traveller who should gain exact See also:information of Timbuktu, to be compared with that given by .Mungo See also:Park. He also received the See also:order of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour, a See also:pension, and other distinctions, and it was at the public expense that his See also:Journal d'un voyage a Temboctou et d Jenne clans l'Afrique Centrale, etc. (edited by E. F. Jomard) was published in three volumes in 1830. Caillie died at Badere in 1838 of a malady contracted during his See also:African travels.

For the greater See also:

part of his See also:life he spelt his name Caillie, afterwards omitting the second " i." See Dr See also:Robert See also:Brown's The See also:Story of See also:Africa, vol. i. See also:chap. xii. ,(See also:London, 1892); Goepp and Cordier, See also:Les Grands Hommes de France, voyageurs: Rene Caille (Paris, 1885) ; E. F. Jomard, See also:Notice historique sur la See also:vie et les voyages de R. Caillie (Paris, 1839). An See also:English version of Caillie's Journal was published in London in 183o in two volumes under the See also:title of Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo, &c.

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