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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"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. ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A70735.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2025.
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CHAINOUQUA'S.
THe Chainouquas at present live three Moneths Journey into the Coun∣trey,
* 1.1 with their Families, Retinue, Wife, Children, and Cattel, ac∣cording to the report of the other wild Natives, very near the Cobo∣nas, being not above four hundred Men, but rich in Cattel.
Their Prince,
* 1.2 call'd Sousoa, an old Man, had two Wives, but both dead; and hath a Son nam'd Goeboe, whose right Leg, broken in pieces by an Ele∣phant,
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is wholly useless to him. Upon every Remove, he rides upon an Ox, and must be lift up and down.
His Clothing is a fine Leopards Skin, with the spotted side turn'd inwards, and the ill-favour'd fleshy side, well liquor'd with Grease, according to the manner of the Countrey, outwards.