"At Rome she haddé been, and at Boloyne In Galice at Saint Jame, and at Coloyne."] [Endnote 12: (p. 8). _Ancient and venerable city of Thebes._--Here we have again a MS. note. [We must understand that there are two cities of Thebes--the one in Egypt and the other in Greece. That in Greece was the selfsame which in the time of Pharaoh Nicrao (_Necho_, _see Herodotus, ii_, _158-9: Josephus Antiq. Jud._) was called Jersem, as saith Marco Polo, whence came the Kings of Thebes who reigned in Egypt C I R (_190_) years. And this was one of the places which were given to Jacob, by the countenance of his son Joseph, when by the needs of hunger he went with his eleven sons to Egypt, as it is writ in Genesis. And Saint Isidore saith in his xvth book (_of Origins_) that Cadmus built Thebes in Egypt, and that he, passing into Greece, founded the other and Grecian Thebes, in the province of Acaya (_Achaia_), the which is now called the land of the Prince of the Amoreans.] It is not necessary to dwell on the additional confusion furnished by this "explanation"--Thebes given to the Israelites (as part of Goshen?), Cadmus building the Egyptian Thebes, Achaia for Bœotia, and so forth; but the point really noticeable is that in Azurara's text the "dwellers on the Nile who possess Thebes" came in here as "wearing the Prince's livery:" _i.e._, the negroes of the Senegal are supposed to live on the western branch of the Nile, which mediæval conceptions obstinately brought from Egypt or Nubia to the Atlantic, and which Prince Henry's seamen thought they had discovered when they reached the Senegal; just as later in the Gambia, the Niger, and the Congo, other equivalents were imagined for the Negro Nile of Edrisi, and the West African river-courses of Pliny and Ptolemy. Cf. chs. xxx, xxxi, lx-lxii, of this Chronicle.] [Endnote 13: (p. 8). _Wisdom of the Italians ... labyrinth._--Here we have another original MS. note. [Labyrinth is so much as to say anything into which a man having entered cannot go out again (_so Prince Henry, in Azurara, vol. i, p. 8 (ch. ii), has "entered a labyrinth of Glory"_). And therefore, saith Ovid, in his _Metamorphoses_, that Pasiphaë, wife of Minos, king of Crete, conceived the Minotaur, who was half man and half bull. The which was imprisoned by Daedalus in the Labyrinth into which whatsoever entered knew not how to come out, and whosoever was without knew not how to enter. And of this Labyrinth speaketh Seneca in the _Tragedy_, where he treated of the matter of Hippolytus and Phedra].