THE SECOND VOYAGE TO GUINEA a.d. 



1555- 



that it was sometime called Sabea : and that the Queene The Queene 



of Saba came from thence to Jerusalem, to heare the °f Saba - 



wisedom of Salomon. From hence toward the East 



reigneth the said Christian Emperor Prester John, whom Prester John 



some cal Papa Johannes, & other say that he is called E J*jj^ ° f 



Pean Juan (that is) great John, whose Empire reacheth 



far beyond Nilus, and is extended to the coasts of the 



Red sea & Indian sea. The middle of the region is 



almost in 66. degrees of longitude, and 12. degrees of 



latitude. About this region inhabite the people called People of the 



Clodi, Risophagi, Babylonii, Axiunitas, Molili, and E Jj?f° f 



Molibae. After these is the region called Troglodytica, 



whose inhabitants dwel in caves and dennes : for these 



are their houses, & the flesh of serpents their meat, as 



writeth Plinie, and Diodorus Siculus. They have no 



speach, but rather a grinning and chattering. There are 



also people without heads, called Blemines, having their People without 



eyes and mouth in their breast. Likewise Strucophagi, e ' 



and naked Ganphasantes : Satyrs also, which have nothing 



of men but onely shape. Moreover Oripei, great hunters. 



Mennones also, and the region of Smyrnophora, which 



bringeth foorth myrrhe. After these is the region of Myrrh. 



Azania, in the which many Elephants are found. A great Azania. 



part of the other regions of Africke that are beyond the 



Aequinoctiall line, are now ascribed to the kingdome of 



Melinde, whose inhabitants are accustomed to trafique Regnum 



with the nations of Arabia, and their king is joyned in Melinde - 



friendship with the king of Portugal, and payeth tribute 



to Prester John. 



The other Ethiope, called ^Ethiopia interior (that is) Aethiopia 

 the inner Ethiope, is not yet knowne for the greatnesse tntertor - 

 thereof, but onely by the sea coastes : yet is it described 

 in this maner. First from the Aequinoctiall toward ye 

 South, is a great region of Aethiopians, which bringeth 

 forth white Elephants, Tygers, and the beastes called White 

 Rhinocerotes. Also a region that bringeth foorth plenty Ele P hants - 

 of cynamome, lying betweene the branches of Nilus. 

 Also the kingdome of Habech or Habasia, a region of Habasia. 



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