The fixth Booke of 



councrey mentioned by me in thefecond booke : wherein for 45 dayes before .mid rummer G 

 the entrance of the funne into Cancerj and as many afterj by tbe.fixt houre of the day, that is to 

 fay^about noone^no lhadowes ate tobefcene : which being once paftj allthe day after they fall 

 into the Southi Asfor other dayes of the yeerc befides, they (hew into the North : v\hereas in 

 that citieBerenice which wee mentioned firft, upon the very dayonely of theSun-fteedjatthe 

 iixc houre or noon-tide,the fhadowes are cleane gone and none to be ftene (for otherwife there 

 is no alteration at all to be obferved throughout the yeere) for the fpace of Soo miks all about 

 Ptolemais. A Grange and notable thing worth obfervationjthat it ftiould be but in one hour 

 all the yeere long, and a matter that gave great light and dire£tion to the world,, yea and mini- 

 ftred occalion to a fingular invention and fubtill conclufion •.iox ErainJl hen es upon this undoubr 

 ted argument and deraonftration of the diverfitie of fhadowes^ fet inhand l-jereupon to take H 

 the meafure of the whole globe of the earth, and put it downe in writing to all pofteritie . Be- 

 yond this citie Ptolemais, the (ea chaungcthhis name and is called Azanium s.over which the 

 capcfhewethit fclfe, which fome have written by the name of Hilpalus: alio, anon appeareth 

 the lakeMandalumjandin it thelfland Colocafitis i but in thedeepe fea many more, whereia 

 are taken many tortoifes. Fardier upon this coaft is the towne Such^, and thenyou may difco- 

 vcr in the Tea the liland Daphnisjand the citie Aduliton,built by cersaine Egyptian flaves who 

 ran away from their n)afters and tooke no leave: and verily thisisthcgrcateft and moil frequen- 

 ted marc tov^ne of all the Trogloditcs counirey,and put the ^Egyptians to them : and itis from 

 Ptolemais 5 daies failing. Thither is brought grcatftoreof IvoriejOr the Elephants tooth, and 

 of thchorneof theRhinoceros: there may amanhave plentieof die Sea-horfe hides, of tor- f 

 toife (belles J of little monkies or marmofeis; there alfo a man may be fped with bondflaves . A 

 little beyond are the iEthiopians, called Arotcres:alfbthe Iflandspamed Alisea :andbefides 

 them oilier iilands, namely jBacchias,Antibacchias, and Stratonis : being paft them, there is a 

 gulfe in the coaft of Ethiopia, as yet notdilcovercdor knownc by any naojc: a thing that may 

 make us marvcilc much, confidering that our merchants fearch into farmer corners than fo, 

 Airoapromontorie,wherein there is afountainc of -frefh water named Ciirios^much dcfired of 

 ihefailers thatpallc thatway,and in great refped ford^.refre(liing that icyeeldcth unto them : 

 beyond it,is the harbor or port of lfis,diftant from the town of the Adulitcs abovefaid, 1 o daies 

 rowing with ores : and thither is the Troglodites myrrhe brought and there laid up.Before this 

 haven, there iye in the fea two lfl3nds,named Pleudopylie : and as many farther within, called K 

 Pylx : in the one of them be cerraine pillars of Hones, engraven with ftraunge and unknowns 

 letters, \^'hen you are pail this haven, you come to an arme of the fea called Abalites : within 

 it is the Ifiand Diodori, and other lying deicrt and unpeopled. Alfo along the continent, there 

 is much wilderneile :but being paft them, you come to the tovsne Gaza : the promontorie aliq 

 and port Moflyiites, unto which ftore of cynamonandcanell is brought . Thusfarre marched 

 Uns^Sefofimmxh hisarmie. Some writers make mention of one towne more in ^Ethiopia be- 

 yond ail this,upoa the fez fide, called Baradsza.King lah would have the A.tlantickiea to begin 

 at the promontorie or cape above-named,Mo{Iylites : on which i€a(as he faith) a man may faile 

 very well with a Weft-northweft v«'irid, by the coafts of his kingdoms of Mauritania or Maroc- 

 cho, as farre as to the coafts of Gibraltar called Gadcs : and fure he Ipeakcth fo confidently ther- ^ 

 of.as I wil nor akogither difcredic his refolution in this bchalfe.From a promontorie of the Indi- 

 ans called Lepteacrajandby others Dfepanum, unto thelfle of MalchUj he faith plainly, that 

 by aftraightand diredcourleic is 15 hundred miles,and never reckon thofe parts that are burnt 

 with the (unne. From thence to a place called Sceneos, heaffimicth itis 225 miles : and from 

 it to the liland Sadanum, 150 miles; and thus by this meanes hee concludeih, that in all,to the 

 open and known fea,it is 1885 miles.But all other writers befides him were of opinion,that there 

 could not poftibly be any failing upon it,for the exceeding heat of the (unne. Over and befides, 

 the Arabians named Alfita^, doe much harmeand annoyance from out of the Iflands which 

 they hold, unto merchants that trafficke that way: for theie Arabians, according as their name 

 doth import, eonple bottles made of goodoxe leather,two by two together, and going upon M 

 them with eafe as ifit were a bridge under them, fcourethefeas, and {hooting their empoyfo" 

 lied arrowes, pradife pyracie,to the great loffe and mifchiefe of merchants and lIiilers.The lame 

 Jufya writeth moreover, that there be eertaine people ofthe Troglodites,named Therothoes, foe 

 theirhuntingof wild bcafts^of their exceeding and wonderfull fwiftneflc in chafing of Deere 



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