Africa being an accurate description of the regions of Ægypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, Æthiopia and the Abyssines : with all the adjacent islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern or Oriental Sea, belonging thereunto : with the several denominations fo their coasts, harbors, creeks, rivers, lakes, cities, towns, castles, and villages, their customs, modes and manners, languages, religions and inexhaustible treasure : with their governments and policy, variety of trade and barter : and also of their wonderful plants, beasts, birds and serpents : collected and translated from most authentick authors and augmented with later observations : illustrated with notes and adorn'd with peculiar maps and proper sculptures / by John Ogilby, Esq. ...

Nun.

NEar the Western Ocean are several Forts and Cities inhabited by the meaner Breberians, * 1.1 and call'd Ydeuzel; but their chief Countrey ly∣ing in the wide-spreading, is Nun, according to the Name of its Head-City.

This spacious Tract of Land lying between Numidia or Biledulgerid, and Lybia or Zahara, of which the greatest part belongeth to Zahara: both which suffer extreamly, in being harrassed by the many Incursions of the spoiling and pillaging Arabs, which skulk in the Desarts, wandring up and down with their Tent-Villages.

Near the City Nun, * 1.2 lieth Cape Nun, or Non, so call'd by the Portuguese; be∣cause they say, whensoever any were returning home, they were ask'd if they would come thither again; who answer'd still in the Negative Voice, Non.

This Countrey affords no Grain, except a little Barley, and a few bad

Dates; therefore the Inhabitants are constrain'd to fetch their Provisions from the Kingdom of Gualata.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Nun.
• * 1.2

  Cape of Nun.