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. ...

The Kingdoms of Pate, Sian, Chelicie, and Ampaza.

THe Kingdom of Pate extends all along the Sea-Coast, on both sides the Bay, in Portuguese call'd Baya Formosa; and the City is handsom and large, and hath a good Haven.

The Jurisdictions of Sian, Chelicie, and Ampaza, neighbor it on all sides, ha∣ving indeed peculiar Lords of their own, but so inconsiderable, that their whole Strength cannot defend them from being miserable Slaves to the Portu∣guese, they Lording over them; nor can the greatness of the Turks, to whose Protection they sometimes flye, give them either a Relief or Relaxation.

The Portuguese have a Castle at Pate; and another between that and Sian, call'd Mondra: But because the Mahumetans shewed themselves unwilling to pay Tribute, and began to raise some Mutinies and Disturbances, the Portu∣guese Admiral, Thomas Sousa, in the Year Fifteen hundred eighty nine, pull'd it down to the Ground: And Alphonso de Mello laid waste the City of Ampaza in Fifteen hundred eighty seven, for the like Rebellion; yet the King, after he had made Peace with the Portuguese, remain'd in the ruin'd City.