Page 185A PERTICULER DESCRPTI∣ON OF AFRICA.
AFRICA, which also in Greke is named 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is the second part & portion of th'Earth. And was first so called of Iupiters daugh∣ter bering that name. But Festus saith it came of the qualitie of th'Aëre, in that coūtrey, deriuing it of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, as who should say, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 that is, without horrour of colde∣nes: other affirme that it toke name of Afer, one of the pòsteritie of Abraham, which ouercomyng his enemies, remained in this part. It beginneth at Gaditanum Fre∣tum (à narrow streight cōming out of th'Ocean into the middle Earth Seas, & haue Spaine on the north shore, & the Mores on the South) And it doeth ende at the Egiptiā Seas. On the North it haue the middle Earth seas, on the south shore the great Ocean, on th'East the sea, which stretche almost to the middle earth seas.
Africke is diuided into two parts by the hyll Atlas, of whiche the lesser extendeth to the midle Earth seas: the greater part goeth beyond this hill vnto the south Oceā. The greater part of it is not inhabited for two causis: one is for th'extreme heat, being vnder the burning zone, the Sōne draweth all the moister of th'earth frō it, so that for want of water no man cā ther liue. The second is for the
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innumerable multitude of venamous wormes, & wilde beastes, which are naturally ennemies vnto mankinde. As the Lion, the Olephant, the Tiger, & such like. Also, Dragons, Chrocodile, Cocatrice, & sundry other veno∣mous Wormes, in suche sorte that th'inhabitauntes are compelled to put on botes, for better auoiding their sting, & poison. The part that is inhabited, is frutful enough. The people blacke, Sauage, Monstrous, & rude: yet in those countries, cities, & townes where the Spaniardes, Portugalles, Italians, & other do frequent, the people are sumwhat more ciuill, modest, & reasonable. Diuers also (yea right graue authors) make mētion of certaine deformed that dwell in Africk, as men with dogges hea∣des, called Cynocephali, some with one eye & that in the forehead, named Monoculi, others without heades, & theyr face in the breast, with diuers such like which I sup pose rather fables then any truth. If you desire à longer descoure Towching Africk, hir inhabitātes, & cōmo∣dities, read Strabo, in his 2. & 17. bokes. And also Pli∣nius his 8. boke, with diuers other writers, which at large do herof intreate, & now I will (folowing my order be∣gun) set out the notable regiōs (which Ptolomaeus num∣breth to be 12.) with theyr chiefe Cities, Townes, hilles, & riuers, with in Africke: & first we will begin with Mauritania, which is diuided into Mauritania Tin∣gitana, & Mauritania Caesariensi.
OF THE PRINCIPAL PLACES IN Tingitana or Barbarica Mauritania.
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Fesse | 10. 0. 30. 0 |
Tingis caesaria called commenlye Tanger | 6. 30. 35. 30 |
Abilis one of Hercules Pillers, is a hill againste Calpe an other Hill in Spaine | 7. 50. 35. 40 |
Baba | 8. 10. 34. 20 |
Banasa | 6. 30. 34. 20 |
Septa | 7. 30. 35. 55 |
Sala | 6. 55. 34. 0 |
The Sonnes Mount | 6. 45. 31 15 |
Benta | 9. 30. 33. 40 |
Dorath. | 10. 10. 31. 15 |
Tamusida | 7. 15. 34. 15 |
MAVRITANIA CAe∣sariensis.
Apollos promontorie | 15. 30. 33. 40 |
Iulia Caesaria. | 17. 0. 33. 20 |
Tucca. | 20. 0. 31. 30 |
Hippa. | 20. 15. 29. 50 |
La Guardia. | 12. 0. 34. 20 |
Cissa. Cerlel. | 18. 45. 32. 10 |
IN AFRICK THE lesse.
Colops the greater. | 27. 40. 32. 20 |
Colops the lesser. | 29. 20. 32. 35 |
Hippon | 30. 30. 32. 15 |
Utica, where Cato died, now called Bensert. 32. 0. 32. 45.
Carthage. | 34. 40. 31. 50 |
Clupea. | 35. 0. 33. 20 |
Sabatra. | 41. 0. 31. 0 |
Vsanum. | 33. 15. 32. 20 |
Dabia | 33. 0. 29. 40 |
NVMIDIA.
Culuca. | 28. 30. 31 0 |
Tucca | 29. 30. 31. 20 |
Bizancina | 37. 50. 30. 40 |
Capsa. | 37. 30. 29 45 |
Calatha. | 31. 0. 53. 40 |
Sabrata | 41. 15. 30. 50 |
Ammon. | 65. 30▪ 28. 0 |
Oasis the great. | 59. 20. 26. 55 |
MARMARICA.
Alexandria. | 60. 30. 31. 0 |
Memphis | 62. 50. 29. 50 |
Cayrum | 62. 15. 30. 0 |
Syene. | 62. 15. 23. 50 |
LYBIA INTERIOR.
Tagaza | 7. 0. 15. 40 |
Tuchorora. | 12. 30 16. 0 |
Tambutum | 15. 30. 15. 40 |
MEROE.
Meroë is an Ilād of Nilus, sometime called Saba, & now Elsaba, where S. Mat∣thew did preache the Gospel. From hence came the quene of Saba, to here Salomōs wis∣dome. From hence also came Cādaces, the quenes Enuche, which was baptised of Philip th'Appostle. But at this pre∣sēt it is the seate of the migh∣tie prince, that we cal Preter Iohn. 61. 30. 16. 25
QVIOLA.
Quiola, or Cayla, is à re∣gion, in which great plentie of Cinamome growe, the chiefe cities are
Hamaharica. | 65. 0. 9. 10 |
Masta. 67. 30. | South Pole. 4 15 |
Beritis. | 60. 40. 21. 31 |
Quiola. 76. 30. | South pole. 7. 30 |
Sabath. | 67. 30. 12. 30 |
Mombaza. 79. 0. | South Pole. 6. 0. |
Melinda. | 82. 30. 2. 0 |
Page 188Cāuaquin. | 80. 0. 9. 50 |
Babell mendap. There are the streightes of the red seas. 74. 50. 11. 0.
OF CITIES OF SON∣dry Regions, in Southe Aethiopia.
Goia 60. 50. | South Pole. 19. 50 |
Garma. 57. 0 | South Pole. 24. 0 |
Bali | 70. 0. 21. 40 |
Meli | 33. 0. 16. 30 |
OF THE NOTABLE Ilandes about Africke.
Porto Sancto. | 0. 35. 31. 30 |
Medera an Ilande, firste inhabited of the Portugales, it aboūdeth with Suger, Ho∣nie, Wax, & sundrye Her∣bes. 358. 40. 29. 50 The Canarian Ilādes beyng x. in numbre. 1. 30. 23. 30 S. Thomas Ilād. 32. 30. 0. 30 Madagascar, whiche is also called Saint Laurence Ilād, there the North Pole is not sene, & the nedle in sailynge will do no seruice. Therefore they ar cōstreined to vse Astro labes, & other Instrumēts. 85. 30. South Pole. 20. 0,
Thus endeth the Description of Africke.