The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11Hakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
[Sindenote: People of Libya.] There are also other people of Libya called
Garamantes, whose women are common: for they contract no matrimonie;
neither haue respect to chastitie. After these are the nations of the
people called Pyrei, Sathiodaphnitæ, Odrangi, Mimaces, Lynxamatæ, Dolopes,
Aganginæ, Leuci Ethiopes, Xilicei Ethiopei, Calcei Ethiopes, and Nubi.
These haue the same situation in Ptolome that they now giue to the kingdome
of Nubia. Here are certaine Christians vnder the dominion of the great
Emperour of Æthiopia, called Prester Iohn. From these toward the West is a
great nation of people called Aphricerones, whose region (as faire as may
be gathered by coniecture) is the same that is now called Regnum Orguene,
confining vpon the East parts of Guinea. From hence Westward, and somewhat
toward the North, are the kingdoms of Gambra and Budomel, not farre from
the riuer of Senega. And from hence toward the inland regions, and along by
the sea coast, are the regions of Ginoia or Guinea, which we commonly call
Ginnee. [Sidenote: The Portugals Nauigation to Brasile.] On the Westside of
these regions toward the Ocean, is the cape or point called Cabo verde, or
Caput viride, (that is) the greene cape, to the which the Portugals first
direct their course when they saile to America, or the land of Brasile.
Then departing from hence, they turne to the right hand toward the quarter
of the winde called Garbino, which is betweene the West and the South. But
to speake somewhat more of Æthiopia: although there are many nations of
people so named, yet is Æthiopia chiefly diuided into two parts, whereof
the one is called Aethiopia vnder Aegypt, a great and rich region. To this
perteineth the Island Meroe, imbraced round about with the stremes of the
riuer Nilus. In this Island women reigned in old time. Iosephus writeth,
that it was sometime called Sabea: and that the Queene of Saba came from
thence to Ierusalem, to heare the wisedom of Salomon. [Sidenote: Prester
Iohn Emperour of Aethiopia.] From hence toward the East reigneth the said
Christian Emperour Prester Iohn, whom some cal Papa Iohannes, and other say
that he is called Pean Iuan (that is) great Iohn, whose Empire reacheth far
beyond Nilus, and is extended to the coasts of the Red sea and Indian sea.
The middle of the region is almost in 66. degrees of longitude, and 12.
degrees of latitude. [Sidenote: People of the Eastside of Africa.] About
this region inhabite the people called Clodi, Risophagi, Bobylonij,
Axiuntæ, Molili, and Molibæ. After these is the region called Troglodytica,
whose inhabitants dwel in caues and dennes: for these are their houses, and
the flesh of serpents their meat, as writeth Plinie, and Diodorus Siculus.
They haue no speach, but rather a grinning and chattering. There are also
people without heads, called Blemines, hauing their eyes and mouth in their
breast. Likewise Strucophagi, and naked Ganphasantes: Satyrs also, which
haue nothing of men but onely shape.
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