A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



c. 1580. 



dwell or traffique in their Countrey goe clothed in 

 greene, neither may they have any thing of greene about 

 them : for they say it is not lawfuU for misbeleevers 

 to weare that colour, wherein that great friend and 

 prophet of God Mahomet was woont to be apparelled. 



Of the citie of Mecca. 



THe Citie of Mecca in the Arabian tongue is called 

 Macca, that is to say, an habitation. This citie is 

 invironed about with exceeding high and barren moun- 

 taines, and in the plaine betweene the sayde mountaines 

 and the citie are many pleasaunt gardens, where groweth 

 great abundaunce of figges, grapes, apples, and melons. 

 There is also great abundance of good water and fleshe, 

 but not of bread. This citie hath no walles about it, and 

 containeth in circuite five miles. The houses are very 

 handsome and commodious, and are built like to the 

 houses in Italic. The palace of the Serifo is sumptuous 

 and gorgeously adorned. The women of the place are 

 courteous, jocund, and lovely, faire, with alluring eyes, 

 being hote and libidinous, and the most of them naughtie 

 packes. The men of this place are given to that 

 abhominable, cursed, and opprobrious vice, whereof both 

 men and women make but small account by reason of the 

 pond Zun Zun, wherein having washed themselves, their 

 opinion is, that although like the dog they returne to 

 their vomite, yet they are clensed from all sinne whatso- 

 ever, of which sin we will hereafter more largely 

 discourse. In the midst of the city is ye great Mosquita, 

 [II. i. 208.] with the house of Abraham standing in the very middest 

 thereof, which Mosquita was built in the time when their 

 prophet lived. It is foure square, and so great, that it 

 containeth two miles in circuit, that is to say, halfe a mile 

 each side. Also it is made in maner of a cloister, for 

 that in the midst thereof separate from the rest, is the 

 abovesayd house of Abraham, also the galleries round 

 about are in maner of 4. streetes, and the partitions which 

 divide the one street from the other are pillars, whereof 



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