A report of the kingdome of Congo, a region of Africa And of the countries that border rounde about the same. 1. Wherein is also shewed, that the two zones torrida & frigida, are not onely habitable, but inhabited, and very temperate, contrary to the opinion of the old philosophers. 2. That the blacke colour which is in the skinnes of the Ethiopians and Negroes &c. proceedeth not from the sunne. 3. And that the Riuer Nilus springeth not out of the mountains of the Moone, as hath been heretofore beleeued: together with the true cause of the rising and increasing thereof. 4. Besides the description of diuers plants, fishes and beastes, that are found in those countries. Drawen out of the writinges and discourses of Odoardo Lopez a Portingall, by Philippo Pigafetta. Translated out of Italian by Abraham Hartwell.
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A report of the kingdome of Congo, a region of Africa And of the countries that border rounde about the same. 1. Wherein is also shewed, that the two zones torrida & frigida, are not onely habitable, but inhabited, and very temperate, contrary to the opinion of the old philosophers. 2. That the blacke colour which is in the skinnes of the Ethiopians and Negroes &c. proceedeth not from the sunne. 3. And that the Riuer Nilus springeth not out of the mountains of the Moone, as hath been heretofore beleeued: together with the true cause of the rising and increasing thereof. 4. Besides the description of diuers plants, fishes and beastes, that are found in those countries. Drawen out of the writinges and discourses of Odoardo Lopez a Portingall, by Philippo Pigafetta. Translated out of Italian by Abraham Hartwell.
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Lopes, Duarte.
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1597.
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"A report of the kingdome of Congo, a region of Africa And of the countries that border rounde about the same. 1. Wherein is also shewed, that the two zones torrida & frigida, are not onely habitable, but inhabited, and very temperate, contrary to the opinion of the old philosophers. 2. That the blacke colour which is in the skinnes of the Ethiopians and Negroes &c. proceedeth not from the sunne. 3. And that the Riuer Nilus springeth not out of the mountains of the Moone, as hath been heretofore beleeued: together with the true cause of the rising and increasing thereof. 4. Besides the description of diuers plants, fishes and beastes, that are found in those countries. Drawen out of the writinges and discourses of Odoardo Lopez a Portingall, by Philippo Pigafetta. Translated out of Italian by Abraham Hartwell." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06339.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
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A TABLE OF
THE CHAPTERS CON∣tayned
in the first Booke of
The Report of the Kingdome of
Congo.
THe iourney by Sea from Lisbone to the
Kingdome of Congo. Chap. I. fol. 1.
Of the temperature of the ayre of the king∣dome
of Congo, and whether it bee
very colde or hot: whether the men bee
white or blacke: Whether are more or
lesse blacke, they that dwell in the hilles, or those that
dwell in the plaines: Of the winds and the raines, and
the snowes in those quarters, and of what stature and
semblaunce the men of that Countrey are. Chapter II.
fol. 13.
Whether the children which are begotten by Portingalles
being of a white skinne, and borne in those Countries
by the women of Congo, be blacke or white, or tawney
like a wilde Oliue, whom the Portingalles call Mu∣lati.
Chap. III. fol 18.
Of the circuite of the kingdome of Congo, and of the borders
and confines thereof. And first of the Westerne Coast.
Chap. IIII. fol. 20.
Of the North coast of the Kingdome of Congo, and the con∣fines
thereof. Chap. V. fol. 30.
Of the East coast of the Kingdome of Congo, and the Con∣fines
thereof. Chap. VI. fol. 38
Of the Confines of the Kingdome of Congo towardes the
South. Chap. VII. fol. 43.
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Of the circuite of the Kingdome of Congo possessed by the
King that now is, according to the foure borders aboue
described. Chap. VIII fol. 58.
The sixe Prouinces of the Kingdome of Congo, and first of
the Prouince of Bamba. Chap. IX. fol. 60.
Of the Prouince of Sogno, which is the Countrey of the Riuer
Zaire, and Loango. Chap. X. fol. 94.
Of the third Prouince ealled Sundi, Chap. XI. fol. 96.
Of the fourth Prouince called Pango. Chap. XII. fol. 99.
Of the fifth Prouince called Batta. Chap. XIII. fol. 100.
Of the sixt and last Prouince called Pemba. Chap. XIIII.
fol. 104
A Table of the Chapters contayned
in the seconde Booke.
OF the situation of the Royall Cittie of the King∣dome
of Congo. Chap. 1. fol. 107
Of the Originall beginning of Christendome in
the Kingdome of Congo, and how the Por∣tingalles
obtayned this trafficke. Chap. II. fol. 118.
Don Iohn, the first Christian King being dead, Don Al∣fonso
his sonne succeeded. Of his warres against his bro∣ther.
Of certaine miracles that were wrought, and of
the conuersion of those people. Chap. III. fol. 133.
The death of King Don Alfonso, and the succession of Don
Piedro. How the Island of S. Thomas was first inhabi∣ted,
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& of the Bishop that was sent thether. Other great ac∣cidentes
that happened by occasion of Religion. The death
of two Kinges by the conspiracie of the Portingalles, and
the Lords of Congo. How the Kings lineage was quite
extinguished. The banishment of the Portingals. Chap. IIII.
fol. 150.
The incursions of the people challed Giachas, in the King∣dome
of Congo. Their conditions and weapons. And
the taking of the Royall Cittie. Chap. V. fol. 159.
The King of Portingall sendeth ayde, and an Embassadour
to the King of Congo. The knowledge of the Mettall
Mines, which abound in Congo is denyed the King of
Portingall. At the same time the King of Congo di∣spatcheth
Embassadours to the King of Spaine, to request
Priestes of him, and what befell vnto them. He sendeth
diuers proofes of the mettalles. The vowe of Odoardo
Lopes. Chap. VI. fol. 163
Of the Court of the King of Congo. Of the apparell of that
people before they became Christians and after. Of the
Kinges Table, and manner of his Court. Chap. VII.
fol. 177
Of the Countries that are beyond the Kingdome of Congo to∣wardes
the Cape of Good-Hope▪ and of the Riuer
Nilus. Chap. VIII. fol. 186
Of the Kingdome of Sofala. Chap. 19. fol. 192
The rest of the Coast of the Ocean the redde sea. Of the Em∣pire
of Prete Gianni, and the Confines thereof. Of the
famous Riuer Nilus, and the originall spring thereof.
Chap. X. fol. 215.
FINIS.
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