A.D. 

 1555. 



Garamantes. 



People of 

 Libya. 



[II. ii. 20.] 

 Prester John. 



Regnum 

 Orguene. 



Gambra. 



Guinea. 



Cabo Verde. 

 The Portugals 

 Navigation to 

 Brasile. 



Aethiopia. 



The Island of 

 Meroe. 



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that is said of this river : And this is, that on the one 

 side thereof, the inhabitants are of high stature and black, 

 and on the other side, of browne or tawnie colour, and 

 low stature, which thing also our men confirme to be 

 true. 



There are also other people of Libya called Garamantes, 

 whose women are common : for they contract no matri- 

 monie, neither have respect to chastitie. After these 

 are the nations of the people called Pyrei, Sathiodaphnitae, 

 Odrangi, Mimaces, Lynxamatae, Dolopes, Aganginae, 

 Leuci Ethiopes, Xilicei Ethiopes, Calcei Ethiopes, and 

 Nubi. These have the same situation in Ptolome that 

 they now give to the kingdome of Nubia. Here are 

 certaine Christians under the dominion of the great 

 Emperour of ^Ethiopia, called Prester John. From these 

 toward the West is a great nation of people called 

 Aphricerones, whose region (as farre as may be gathered 

 by conjecture) is the same that is now called Regnum 

 Orguene, confining upon the East parts of Guinea. 

 From hence Westward, and somewhat toward the North, 

 are the kingdoms of Gambra and Budomel, not farre 

 from the river of Senega. And from hence toward the 

 inland regions, and along by the sea coast, are the regions 

 of Ginoia or Guinea, which we commonly call Ginnee. 

 On the Westside of these regions toward the Ocean, is 

 the cape or point called Cabo verde, or Caput viride, 

 (that is) the greene cape, to the which the Portugals 

 first direct their course when they saile to America, or 

 the land of Brasile. Then departing from hence, they 

 turne to the right hand toward the quarter of the winde 

 called Garbino, which is betweene the West and the 

 South. But to speake somewhat more of ^Ethiopia : 

 although there are many nations of people so named, yet 

 is Aethiopia chiefly divided into two parts, whereof the 

 one is called Aethiopia under Aegypt, a great & rich 

 region. To this perteineth the Island Meroe, imbraced 

 round about with the stremes of the river Nilus. In this 

 Island women reigned in old time. Josephus writeth, 



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