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. ...
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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. ...
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Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.
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1670.
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THE KINGDOM OF BIGUBA.
AT the Nether-Arm of Rio Grande,* 1.1 above the River Guinala, lieth the Kingdom of Biguba: The chiefest place thereof is the Haven of Bigu∣ba, and a little higher the Haven of Balola, inhabited by the Tangos-Maas; but the Village of the Haven Biguba, the Portugals possess.
The Beafers lead the same manner of life as the People of Guinala. The Tangos-Maas are extracted out of the Portugal Blood, but have united themselves with the Blacks, and live now no less barbarously than they, as if they had ne∣ver heard of Christianity; in some places going all naked, and Carving their Skins after the manner of the Countrey.
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¶ THey live under a Monarch, as those of Guinala, after whose death the most powerful of the Family obtain the Crown, but not without great contest; so that in the interim they are all in Arms, committing all kinds of extravagant outrages, till by Conquest reduced under the obedience of him that lays the strongest claim.
They are like the Beafers, Idolaters, although some are already by the Jesu∣its brought to the Christian Faith.