<P> Eudoxus of Cyzicus (/ ˈjuːdəksəs /; Greek: Εὔδοξος, Eúdoxos; fl . c. 130 BC) was a Greek navigator for Ptolemy VIII, king of the Hellenistic Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt, who found the wreck of a ship in the Indian Ocean that appeared to have come from Gades (today's Cádiz in Spain), rounding the Cape . </P> <P> When Eudoxus was returning from his second voyage to India the wind forced him south of the Gulf of Aden and down the coast of Africa for some distance . Somewhere along the coast of East Africa, he found the remains of the ship . Due to its appearance and the story told by the natives, Eudoxus concluded that the ship was from Gades and had sailed anti-clockwise around Africa, passing the Cape and entering the Indian Ocean . This inspired him to repeat the voyage and attempt a circumnavigation of the continent . Organising the expedition on his own account he set sail from Gades and began to work down the African coast . The difficulties were too great, however, and he was obliged to return to Europe . </P> <P> After this failure he again set out to circumnavigate Africa . His eventual fate is unknown . Although some, such as Pliny, claimed that Eudoxus did achieve his goal, the most probable conclusion is that he perished on the journey . </P> <P> In the 1450 Fra Mauro map, the Indian Ocean is depicted as connected to the Atlantic . Fra Mauro puts the following inscription by the southern tip of Africa, which he names the "Cape of Diab", describing the exploration by a ship from the East around 1420: </P>

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