They were probably called legends. not sure.
In 1828, a teen aged Abraham Lincoln guided a flatboat down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. The adventure marked his first visit to a major city and exposed him to the nation's largest slave marketplace.
There are many oceans you could name for this but if it isn’t looking for a specific answer just put - Pacific
Fun fact:
Glaciers and ice sheets hold about 69 percent of the world's freshwater.
Answer:
Many items were traded between North Africa and West Africa, but the two goods that were most in demand were gold and salt. The North Africans wanted gold, which came from the forest region south of Ghana. The people in the forests wanted salt, which came from the Sahara.