A.D. 

 1555. 



Ichthiophagi. 



Anthropo- 

 phagi. 



Monies Lunee. 

 Gazatia. 



Cap. bonce 

 Spei. 



Africa with- 

 out colde. 



The winter 

 of Africa. 



Flames of fire 

 and noise in 

 the aire. 



The middle 

 region of the 

 aire is cold. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Christian men, lying both on this side and beyond Nilus. 

 Here are also the Aethiopians, called Ichthiophagi (that is) 

 such as live onely by fish, and were sometimes subdued 

 by the warres of great Alexander. Furthermore the 

 Aethiopians called Rhapsii, & Anthropophagi, y t are 

 accustomed to eat mans flesh, inhabite the regions neere 

 unto the mountains called Montes Lunae (that is) the 

 mountaines of the Moone. Gazatia is under the Tropike 

 of Capricorne. After this followeth the front of Afrike, 

 the Cape of Buena Speranza, or Caput Bonae Spei, that is, 

 the Cape of good hope, by the which they passe that saile 

 from Lisbon to Calicut. But by what names the Capes 

 and gulfes are called, forasmuch as the same are in every 

 globe and card, it were here superfluous to rehearse 

 them. 



Some write that Africa was so named by the Grecians, 

 because it is without colde. For the Greeke letter Alpha 

 or A signifieth privation, voyd, or without : and Phrice 

 signifieth colde. For in deed although in the stead of 

 Winter they have a cloudy and tempestuous season, yet 

 is it not colde, but rather smoothering hote, with hote 

 showres of raine also, and somewhere such scorching 

 windes, that what by one meanes and other, they seeme 

 at certaine times to live as it were in fornaces, and in 

 maner already halfe way in Purgatorie or hell. Gemma 

 Phrisius writeth, that in certaine parts of Africa, as in 

 Atlas the greater, the aire in the night season is seene 

 shining, with many strange fires and flames rising in 

 maner as high as the Moone : and that in the element are 

 sometime heard as it were the sound of pipes, trumpets 

 and drummes : which noises may perhaps be caused by 

 the vehement and sundry motions of such fine exhala- 

 tions in the aire, as we see the like in many experiences 

 wrought by fire, aire and winde. The hollownesse also, 

 and divers reflexions and breaking of the cloudes may be 

 great causes hereof, beside the vehement colde of the 

 middle region of the aire, whereby the said fiery exhala- 

 tions, ascending thither, are suddenly stricken backe with 



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