Thirdly, Although we should place the original of this curse upon one of the sons of _Cham_, yet were it not known from which of them to derive it. For the particularity of their descents is imperfectly set down by accountants, nor is it distinctly determinable from whom thereof the _Æthiopians_ are proceeded. For whereas these of _Africa_ are generally esteemed to be the Issue of _Chus_, the elder son of _Cham_, it is not so easily made out. For the land of _Chus_, which the Septuagint translates _Æthiopia_, makes no part of _Africa_, nor is it the habitation of Blackmores, but the Country of _Arabia_, especially the Happy and Stony possessions and Colonies of all the sons of _Chus_, excepting _Nimrod_ and _Havilah_: possessed and planted wholly by the children of _Chus_, that is, by _Sabtah_ and _Raamah_, _Sabtacha_, and the sons of _Raamah_, _Dedan_, and _Sheba_, according unto whose names the Nations of those parts have received their denominations, as may be collected from _Pliny_ and _Ptolemy_; and as we are informed by credible Authors, they hold a fair Analogy in their names, even unto our days. So the wife of _Moses_ translated in Scripture an _Æthiopian_, and so confirmed by the fabulous relation of _Josephus_, was none of the daughters of _Africa_, nor any Negroe of _Æthiopia_, but the daughter of _Jethro_, Prince and Priest of _Madian_, which was a part of _Arabia_ the stony, bordering upon the Red Sea. So the Queen of _Sheba_ came not unto _Solomon_ out of _Æthiopia_, but from _Arabia_, and that part thereof which bore the name of the first planter, the son of _Chus_. So whether the Eunuch which _Philip_ the Deacon baptised, were servant unto _Candace_ Queen of the _African Æthiopia_ (although _Damianus a Goes, Codignus_, and the Æthiopick relations averr) is yet by many, and with strong suspitions doubted. So that Army of a million, which _Zerah_ King of _Æthiopia_ is said to bring against _Asa_, was drawn out of _Arabia_, and the plantations of _Chus_; not out of _Æthiopia_, and the remote habitations of the Moors. For it is said that _Asa_ pursuing his victory, took from him the City _Gerar_; now _Gerar_ was no City in or near _Æthiopia_, but a place between _Cadesh_ and _Zur_, where _Abraham_ formerly sojourned. Since thereof these _African Æthiopians_ are not convinced by the common acception to be the sons of _Chus_, whether they be not the posterity of _Phut_ or _Mizraim_, or both, it is not assuredly determined. For _Mizraim_, he possessed _Egypt_, and the East parts of _Africa_. From _Lubym_ his son came the _Lybians_, and perhaps from them the _Æthiopians_. _Phut_ possessed _Mauritania_, and the Western parts of _Africa_, and from these perhaps descended the Moors of the West, of _Mandinga_, _Meleguette_ and _Guinie_. But from _Canaan_, upon whom the curse was pronounced, none of these had their originall; for he was restrained unto _Canaan_ and _Syria_; although in