THE SECOND VOYAGE TO GUINEA ad. 



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went about to set foorth (or rather corrupt) naturall 

 beautie with colours and painting, were reproved by this 

 proverbe, Ebur atramento candefacere, that is, To make 

 ivory white with inke. The Poets also describing the 

 faire necks of beautifull virgins, call them Eburnea colla, 

 that is, Ivory necks. And to have said thus much of 

 Elephants and Ivory, it may suffice. 



Now therefore I will speake somewhat of the people The people of 

 and their maners, and maner of living, with an other Africa. 

 briefe description of Africa also. It is to be understood, 

 that the people which now inhabite the regions of the 

 coast of Guinea, and the midle parts of Africa, as Libya 

 the inner, and Nubia, with divers other great & large 

 regions about the same, were in old time called TEthiopes 

 and Nigritae, which we now call Moores, Moorens, or 

 Negroes, a people of beastly living, without a God, lawe, 

 religion, or common wealth, and so scorched and vexed 

 with the heat of the sunne, that in many places they curse 

 it when it riseth. Of the regions and people about the 

 inner Libya (called Libya interior) Gemma Phrysius Libyainterior. 

 writeth thus. 



Libya interior is very large and desolate, in the which 

 are many horrible wildernesses & mountaines, replenished 

 with divers kinds of wilde and monstrous beastes and 

 serpents. First from Mauritania or Barbary toward the 

 South is Getulia, a rough and savage region, whose in- Getulia. 

 habitants are wilde and wandering people. After these 

 follow the people called Melanogetuli and Pharusii, which 

 wander in the wildernesse, carrying with them great 

 gourdes of water. The Ethiopians called Nigritae occupy ^Ethiopes. 

 a great part of Africa, and are extended to the West Nt i f ' tt£e - 

 Ocean. Southward also they reach to the river Nigritis, The river 

 whose nature agreeth with the river of Nilus, forasmuch Ntgntts or 

 as it is increased and diminished at the same time, and 

 bringeth forth the like beasts as the Crocodile. By 

 reason whereof, I thinke this to be the same river which 

 the Portugals call Senega : For this river is also of the same j strange 

 nature. It is furthermore marveilous and very strange 



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