BOOK 11. 
PISCO^^TGRIES AND TRAVELS IN THE MARITIME 
COUNTRIES OF AFRICA. 
CHAPTER L 
DISCOVERIES AND TRAVELS IN ABYSSINIA. 
Prester John. — Covilham, — Alvarez* — Bermudez. — Oviedo.-^ 
Payz, — Fernandez. — Loho. — Baratti. — Poncet. — Bruce.-^ 
Observatmns on his Authenticity. — SaWs First Journey,-^ 
Second Journey. 
The view given in a former part of the work, of 
the progress of discovery along the western coast 
of Africa, has shewn the anxiety by which the 
Portuguese monarchs were animated to discover 
the traces of a Christian monarch, reported to be 
estabHshed in some part of the eastern coast. 
This anxiety was in no degree abated, when the 
splendid prospect opened, of circumnavigating the 
southern cape of Africa, and penetrating, by that 
route, into the Indian ocean. Both Bartholomew 
