A.D. 

 1553 



Marocco. 

 Fes. 



Tremisen. 

 Guinea. 



Africa ye 

 great. 



Africa the 

 lesse. 



Carthage. 



Prester John. 



Cape de Bona 

 Speranza. 



Alcair. 

 [II. ii. 11.] 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



of trees, plastered with chalke, and covered with strawe. 

 In these regions are also very great deserts. 



The kingdom of Marocco hath under it these seven 

 kingdoms : Hea, Sus, Guzula, the territorie of Marrocco, 

 Duccala, Hazchora, and Tedle. The kingdom of Fes 

 hath as many : as Fes, Temesne, Azgar, Elabath, JErrif, 

 Garet, and Elcair. The kingdom of Tremisen hath these 

 regions : Tremisen, Tenez, and Elgazair, all which are 

 Machometists. But all the regions of Guinea are pure 

 Gentiles, and idolatrous, without profession of any 

 religion, or other knowledge of God, then by the law 

 of nature. 



Africa the great is one of the three parts of the world, 

 knowen in old time, and severed from Asia, on the East 

 by the river Nilus, on the West from Europe by the 

 pillars of Hercules. The hither part is now called 

 Barbarie, and the people Moores. The inner part is 

 called Lybia and Aethiopia. Afrike the lesse is in this 

 wise bounded. On the West it hath Numidia ; On the 

 East Cyrenaica : On the North, the sea called Mediter- 

 raneum. In this countrey was the noble city of 

 Carthage. 



In the East side of Afrike beneath the red sea, dwelleth 

 the great and mighty Emperour and Christian king 

 Prester John, well knowen to the Portugales in their 

 voyages to Calicut. His dominions reach very farre on 

 every side : and hath under him many other Kings both 

 christian and heathen that pay him tribute. This mightie 

 prince is called David the Emperour of Aethiopia. Some 

 write that the king of Portugall sendeth him yeerely 

 eight ships laden with marchandize. His kingdom con- 

 fineth with the red Sea, and reacheth far into Afrike 

 toward Aegypt and Barbarie. Southward it confineth 

 with the Sea toward the Cape de Bona Speranza : and on 

 the other side with the sea of sand, called Mare de 

 Sabione, a very dangerous sea lying between ye great 

 citie of Alcair, or Cairo in Aegypt, and the country of 

 Aethiopia : In the which way are many unhabitable 



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