Plini'es NatUr&lI Hiftorie. 



A uponland : as thclchthyophagi for courfing of fifhin the Tea, fwimming as naturally as if thdy 

 were: water creatures. Moreover, hec nameth other nations in thofe parts, as theBargeni, Za- 

 geresjGbalybesjSaKinjejSyreces^Daremes and Domazancs. Futthermore^hec affirnieth^that 

 the people inhabiting along the fides ofNilus from Sycne unto Meroe, are notiEthyopians, 

 but Arabiansjwho for to feeke frcfh water^approched Nilus^and there dwelt : as alfo that tlie ci- 

 lic of the SunnCjwhich we faid before in the defcription of gypt^ftandeth not tar from Mcm- 

 phisjwas firft founded and built by the Arabians. Contrariwile, other Geographers there bee, 

 whoaffirmcjihatthefattherfideorbankeof NilusisnopartofiEthyopia, and they lay it as a 

 dependant annexed to Affrick. But be it as will be,I will not greatly bufi e my head thereabout, 

 but fuffer every man to abound in his owne fencc,and have his own way : only I will content my 



B felfe with this, to fet downe the townes on both fides thereof, in that order as they are declared 

 unto mec. And firft to begin with that fide toward Arabia : after you are paft Syene, enter you 

 fhall upon the countrey of the Catadupi,and fo forward into the land of the Syenites. Wherein 

 thefe townes ftand in order as followeth:Tacompfon5which feme have called irhatire,Aranium 

 SefaniumjSandurajNafandum, Anadoma, Cumara^Beda and Bochiana,Lcuphilhorga,Tan- 

 t3rene3Machindira^Noa,Gophoa3Gyftata2^Megeda,LcaiRhemnia,NupfiaiDirea,Pacara^Ba- 

 gada, Dumana, Rhadata, wherein a golden cat is worfbipped as a god . Boron in the midland 

 part of the continent, and Mallos, thenexttownetoMeroc. Thus hath digefted and fee 

 them downe. But king Tuba hath raunged them otherwifein this manner. Firff,Mcgatichos,a 

 towncfituateuponahillbetweeneiEgyptandiEthyopia, which the Arabians ufe tocall Myr- 



C Ibn : next to it Tacompfon s then AraniunijSefaniumjPide jVlamuda,and Corambis , neere un- 

 to it a fountaine of liquid Bitumen :Hammodara^PrordajParentajMama3Theflara>Gallae,Zo. 

 ton,GraucomejEmeum, Pidibota?,Hebdomccontacomet2e, and theNomadcsjwho ordinarily 

 are encamped under tents and pavilions.Cyfte,Pemma,Gadagale,Palois,PnmmiSjNt)pfis3Da- 

 felis,Patis,Gambrenes,Magafes,Segafinala,Granda3Denna3Cadeuma,ThenajBaiha5Alanaj' 

 MacumjScammos^and Gora within an Ifland. Beyond which^ AbalajAndrocaIis,Seres3MaiIos 

 and Agoce. And thus much on the fide of Arabia. Now for Affricke fide, they are in this wile 

 reckoned. Firfli^Tacompfos, according to the others name, or a parccll rather of the former t 

 then, Magora, Sea, Edola, PelenariajPyndiSjMagufa, Bauma, Linitima^Spyntuma,Sydopta, 

 Genfba.Pindicitora,EugoPrfima,SuarajMauni3^Rhuma,Vrbubuma^Mulona,\\hichrownth<5 

 D Greeks were wont to caijjHypaton :Pagoargas, Zanones,S( there begin the Elephants tocome 

 injMambliajBcrrefajCetuma.There was moreover a town fomeiime named Episjfituate againft 

 Meroe: but rafed it was and utterly deftroied before that B:on wrote his Geographic . See what 

 citties and towns of name were recorded in times pad to have ben in thofe partSjUntill you come 

 to the Ifle Meroe. And yet at this day there is neither ilicke nor (lone to be found of any of them 

 in a manner,on neither fide. Only deferis and a vaft wiidcrnefTe in iked of them,by report mads 

 iinto2^{.if/'tftheEmperourby the Praetorian fouldiours, fent thither from him under the leading 

 of a Tribune or Colonell jto difcover thofe quarters of ^^^thyopiajand to relate accordingly:ac 

 what time as amongft other his deffignes, that prince intended an expedition with his armie 

 againfl the ^thyopians. And yet before his time,even in the daics of AuguHm c^far of happie 



E memorie, the Romanes pierced thither with a power of armed men under the conduct of FuOi 

 Tetronimy^ knight of Rome,and governour of iEgypt, deputed by the faid Emperour . Where 

 he forced by aflault and conquered all thofe townes in -^thyopia which he then found ftandmg, 

 in this order following : namely 5Pfelcis,Primis,Abaccis,Phihuris3Cambufis,Attena, Stadifis, 

 5'5here the river Nilus runneth downe witli fuch a mightie fall, that with the noife thereof the m- 

 habitants there byjoofe their hearing and become dcafe. Befides thefe hee woon alfo and fac- 

 ked Napata. And albeit he marched forward ftill a great way into the countrey, even 87 o myles 

 beyond Syene,yet this Romane armie of his laid not all waif in thofe parts,and left the countrie 

 fodefertasnowitis, No,no:Itwas thciEgyptianswarres and not the Romanes that gave the 

 waft to iEthyopia : and albeit fbmetimes it woon and othetwhiks loft \ one time bare the fcepter 

 F and ruled,anothcr time underwent the yoke, and were fubdued : yet was it of great name in the 

 world and puiflant,untill the reigne of king LMemmn^ho ruled at the time of the Trojane war: 

 yea, and Syria was fuBjccf unto it, as alfo the coaft of our fea in king Cephem dai€s,as appeareth 

 by the fabulous tales that goe as touching oif«^r^?/«('<!j(''a».Semblably. the Geographers vane and 

 difagree much about the meafurc and dimenfion of iEthyopia*And firft of all othei:s^Z)rf//^?/?,al. 



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