A.D. 



1553- 



[II. ii. 10.] 



Tunis. 



Tripoli. 

 Numidia. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



was advertised of the same, by the information of such 

 credible persons, as made diligent inquisition to know 

 the trueth thereof, as much as shall be requisite, omitting 

 to speake of many particular things, not greatly neces- 

 sarie to be knowen : which neverthelesse, with also the 

 exact course of the navigation, shall be more fully 

 declared in the second voiage. And if herein favour 

 or friendship shall perhaps cause some to thinke that 

 some have bene sharply touched, let them lay apart 

 favour and friendship, and give place to trueth, that 

 honest men may receive prayse for well doing, and 

 lewd persons reproch, as the just stipend of their evill 

 desertes, whereby other may be deterred to doe the like, 

 and vertuous men encouraged to proceed in honest 

 attempts. 



But that these voyages may be more plainly under- 

 stood of all men, I have thought good for this purpose, 

 before I intreat hereof, to make a briefe description of 

 Africa, being that great part of the world, on whose West 

 side beginneth the coast of Guinea at Cabo Verde, about 

 twelve degrees in latitude, on this side the Equinoctiall 

 line, and two degrees in longitude from the measuring 

 line, so running from the North to the South, and by 

 East in some places, within 5, 4, and 3 degrees and a 

 halfe unto the Equinoctiall, and so foorth in maner 

 directly East and by North, for the space of 36 degrees 

 or thereabout, in longitude from the West to the East, 

 as shall more plainly appeare in the description of the 

 second voyage. 



A briefe description of Afrike gathered by 

 Richard Eden. 



N Africa the lesse are these kingdoms : the 

 kingdom of Tunis and Constantina, which is at 

 this day under Tunis, and also the region of 

 Bugia, Tripoli, and Ezzah. This part of Afrike is 

 very barren by reason of the great deserts, as the 

 deserts of Numidia and Barca. The principall ports 



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