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3. ANGOTE.
ANGOTE is bounded on the North with Tigremon, on the West with Nilus, on the South with the Kingdom of Amara, on the East with Dancali and Xoa. Indifferently compounded of hils and vallies, both extremely fertile, productive of the choicest fruits, and great herds of Cattel. The people eat but once in 24 houres, and for the most part make that meal in the night; their dyet raw Venison, or smoaked Beef: the mony most in use amongst them, Salt, Pepper, and Iron. Which cu∣stom of using Salt, pepper, and the like instead of mony, was in former times amongst most people the onely bartery or way of exchange. So in Homer, Glancus golden Armour was valued at an hun∣dred Kine, and Diomedes Armour at ten only. Afterward in Justice commutative, it was deemed convenient to have some common Judge, or valuation of the equality or inequality of goods: the invention of which the Jews attribute to Cain, the Grecians to Hermodice the wife of Midas, the Romans to Janus. It is called Nummus, or 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, because it was ordained by law: Pecunia, either because in elder times the chief of their wealth consisted in cattel, as now among the Irish; or from a Cow (Pecus) which was stamped on it: and Moneta, à monendo, as Suidas faith; because when the Romans stood in need of money, Iuno monebat, Iuno admonished them that they should use justice, and there should be no want of money. To this Goddesse, Dea Pecunia, the Ro∣mans erected a Temple, and worshipped it in the figure of a Woman holding a pair of Scales in one hand, and a Cornucopia in the other: by the Poet called Regina Pecunia, and not unfitly, the great∣ness of her power considered.
But to return again to Angote: I find not much spoken of the Country in the way of story; nor meet I with the names of any of their Towns or Cities; unless that 1 Angote it self, as also 2 Abu∣gana, 3 Giannamora, two of the principal provinces of it, may possibly be so called from their prin∣cipal Towns, as perhaps they are.