A geographical historie of Africa, written in Arabicke and Italian by Iohn Leo a More, borne in Granada, and brought vp in Barbarie. Wherein he hath at large described, not onely the qualities, situations, and true distances of the regions, cities, townes, mountaines, riuers, and other places throughout all the north and principall partes of Africa; but also the descents and families of their kings ... gathered partly out of his owne diligent obseruations, and partly out of the ancient records and chronicles of the Arabians and Mores. Before which, out of the best ancient and moderne writers, is prefixed a generall description of Africa, and also a particular treatise of all the maine lands and isles vndescribed by Iohn Leo. ... Translated and collected by Iohn Pory, lately of Goneuill and Caius College in Cambridge
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A geographical historie of Africa, written in Arabicke and Italian by Iohn Leo a More, borne in Granada, and brought vp in Barbarie. Wherein he hath at large described, not onely the qualities, situations, and true distances of the regions, cities, townes, mountaines, riuers, and other places throughout all the north and principall partes of Africa; but also the descents and families of their kings ... gathered partly out of his owne diligent obseruations, and partly out of the ancient records and chronicles of the Arabians and Mores. Before which, out of the best ancient and moderne writers, is prefixed a generall description of Africa, and also a particular treatise of all the maine lands and isles vndescribed by Iohn Leo. ... Translated and collected by Iohn Pory, lately of Goneuill and Caius College in Cambridge
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Leo, Africanus, ca. 1492-ca. 1550.
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Londini :: [Printed by Eliot's Court Press] impensis Georg. Bishop,
1600.
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"A geographical historie of Africa, written in Arabicke and Italian by Iohn Leo a More, borne in Granada, and brought vp in Barbarie. Wherein he hath at large described, not onely the qualities, situations, and true distances of the regions, cities, townes, mountaines, riuers, and other places throughout all the north and principall partes of Africa; but also the descents and families of their kings ... gathered partly out of his owne diligent obseruations, and partly out of the ancient records and chronicles of the Arabians and Mores. Before which, out of the best ancient and moderne writers, is prefixed a generall description of Africa, and also a particular treatise of all the maine lands and isles vndescribed by Iohn Leo. ... Translated and collected by Iohn Pory, lately of Goneuill and Caius College in Cambridge." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A05331.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 22, 2025.
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Of the citie of Cana.
THe ancient citie of Cana built by the Egyptians vpon the banke of* 1.1 Nilus ouer against Barbanda, and enuironed with wals of sunne-dried bricke, is inhabited with people of base condition, applying themselues vnto husbandrie, by which meanes the citie aboundeth with corne. Hither are the merchandise brought against the streame of Nilus, which are sent from Cairo to Mecca: for the distance from hence ouer the wildernes vnto the Red sea, is at least 120. miles, all which way there is no water at all to befounde. And at the hauen of Chossir vpon the shore of the red sea are* 1.2 diuers cottages whereinto the saide merchandises are vnladen. And ouer against Chossir on the side of Asia lieth Iambuh another hauen of the red sea, whereat trauailers going on pilgrimage to see the tombe of Mahumet at Medina, must make their rendezuous or generall meeting. Morecuer Chana furnisheth Medina and Mecca with corne, in which places they suf∣fer great and continuall scarcitie.
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* 1.1
Antonio Gal∣uano maketh large mention of this citie.