The estates, empires, & principallities of the world Represented by ye description of countries, maners of inhabitants, riches of prouinces, forces, gouernment, religion; and the princes that haue gouerned in euery estate. With the begin[n]ing of all militarie and religious orders. Translated out of French by Edw: Grimstone, sargeant at armes.

¶ Their Manners.

THere are in this Island some fortie or fiftie Portugals which are married there, and dwel commonly in this Island; these men liue after the maner of their owne coun∣trie. Besides these fortie or fiftie Portugals, and the Mestiz which are ingendred of Indian women by Portugals, there are some foure hundred families of Negros which dwell there, and their houses are couered with straw: these liue partly after the manner of the Portugals, and partly like the other Negros. But they that liue betwixt Mozambique and the Cape of Good Hope, are altogether barbarous and sauage, without either God or [ D] law. They all go generally naked, and the men haue only a little peece of cloth which co∣uers their priuie parts, and the women from the middest of their brest vnto the middest of their thighes couer themselues with a certaine peece of course cotton, but they that liue within the maine land hide not any part of their bodies. At Mozambique, they make their greatest dainties of swines flesh, and doe not forbid it to any sicke person, as they doe all other kinde of flesh. It is not lawfull for any one to liue in this Island vnlesse hee marrie. The tyrant or king of Quiloe, was sometimes ma••••ter thereof, and the Mahome∣tans dwelt there vnder a gouernor, whom the Arabians call Zequen.