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
Moreouer Oripei, great hunters.
Mennones also and the region of Smyrmophora, which bringeth foorth myrrhe.
After these is the region of Azania, in the which many Elephants are found.
A great part of the other regions of Africke that are beyond the
Aequinoctiall line, are now ascribed to the kingdome of Melinde, whose
inhabitants are accustomed to trafique with the nations of Arabia, and
their king is ioyned in friendship with the king of Portugal, and payeth
tribute to Prester Iohn.
The other Ethiope, called Æthiopia interior (that is) the inner Ethiope, is
not yet knowne for the greatnesse thereof, but onely by the sea coastes:
yet is it described in this manner. First from the Aequinoctiall toward the
South, is a great region of Aethiopians, which bringeth forth white
Elephants, Tygers, and the beastes called Rhinocerotes. Also a region that
bringeth foorth plenty of cynamome, lying betweene the branches of Nilus.
Also the kingdome of Habech or Habasi, a region of Christian men, lying
both on this side and beyond Nilus. Here are also the Aethiopians, called
Ichthiopagi (that is) such as liue onely by fish, and were sometimes
subdued by the warres of great Alexander. Furthermore the Aethiopians
called Rhapsij, and Anthropophagi, that are accustomed to eat mans flesh,
inhabite the regions neere vnto the mountains called Montes Lunæ (that is)
the mountaines of the Moone. Gazati is vnder the Tropike of Capricorne.
After this followeth the front of Afrike, the Cape of Buena Speranza, or
Caput Bonæ Spei, that is, the Cape of good hope, by the which they passe
that saile from Lisbon to Calicut. But by what names the Capes and gulfes
are called, forasmuch as the same are in euery globe and card, it were here
superfluous to rehearse them.
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