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A30860	The late travels of S. Giacomo Baratti, an Italian gentleman, into the remote countries of the Abissins, or of Ethiopia interior wherein you shall find an exact account of the laws, government, religion, discipline, customs, &c. of the Christian people that do inhabit there with many observations which some may improve to the advantage and increase of Trade with them : together with a confirmation of this relation drawn from the writings of Damianus de Goes and Jo. Scaliger, who agree with the author in many particulars / translated by G.D.	Baratti, Giacomo.; G. D.; Góis, Damião de, 1502-1574.; Scaliger, Joseph Juste, 1540-1609.	1670 (1670)	Wing B677; ESTC R11736	63,785	282

and Bloud of Christ in the Sacrament since I am come into Portugal neither do I know wherefore I am esteemed amongst my Christian brethren as a Heathen and an excommunicated person which hath caused me much grief but to him that sees and Judges all things I remit my cause I am not sent by my most mighty Lord the Emperour of Ethiopia to the Bishop of Rome and the most Serene Prince John King of Portugal only to entertain them with disputations but to conclude a firm league and open a correspondency between them not to discourse about humane traditions but to inquire about the errours of Arrius the Prince of Hereticks and know whether the Christians of Europe do joyn with us in opposing his opinions and further that I might know whether it be the custom of the European Christians to assemble in Counsel twice every year about Matters of faith as the Apostles have commanded in their Synodial book the first assembly they order to be met on the day of Pentecosts the second on the tenth of October Besides I am come to know how we agree about the errours of Macedonius of Nestorius and of Eutiches about the last the Council of Calcedone assembled but the Bishops broke up the assembly before any Conclusion retaining their own opinions My Lord the most Mighty Emperour hath-all the books of the General Councel's and is much grieved so are all his subjects for the discords and errours these Tares that the Devil hath sown in the Lords field the Bishop of Rome we have always est comedus the first and most powerful Bishop of the world and were it not for the Mahumetans whose Country being between us do hinder our passage for the great distance of places we should send to his Court very often King Emanuel of blessed Memory did first open a way to us from the Red sea c. Having spoken of these things I will say something of our Emperour of our Patriarch You must know first that our Patriarch is thus solemnly elected by and out of our Monks of Jerusalem that there do dwell at the Sepulchre of our Lord. When the old Patriarch is dead the Emperour dispatches away with all speed an express to the Monks that live at Jerusalem as soon as they have received the news of the death of the Abuna with the Presents that the Emperour sends to our Saviours Sepulchre they proceed to the election of another Abuna whom they chuse by the plurality of voices It is not lawful to pitch upon another for that office but only upon an Inhabitant of Alexandria and upon one whose life is irreproachable When they have chosen him they give unto him his dispatches with the messenger that came to give them notice of the former Abuna's death They go together to Grand Cairo to meet the Egyptian Patriarch that hath there his ordinary residence to the end that he may be acquainted with the election The Patriarch when he approves of the sufficiency of the person for so eminent an office he sends him into Ethiopia with the messenger who must always be according to the ancient custom a Monk of the Order of St. Anthony the Hermite with him this messenger hasten● towards Ethiopia wherewith all expressions of joy and honour they are received of all men Sometimes a year or two passes before this business can be dispatched In the mean while the Neguz disposes of the great Revenue of the Abuna according to his pleasure Now the chief office of an Abuna is to confer Holy Orders none but he can give them or ought to take them away or degrade the Priests He never affects to meddle with the giving of Bishopricks or of Benefices that do belong to the Precious ●iam who may do with them according to his pleasure And when the Patriarch or Abuna is dead the Emperour is the Heir of his Estate which is very great It belongs also to the Patriarch to excommunicate contumacious offenders He never grants any Indulgencies of those penalties that are imposed for grievous faults The Sacraments of the Church are never prohibited to any unless it be for the crime of Murder Our Patriarch is called in our language Abuna he that is at present in this place is called at his baptism Mark a man aged of about 100 years Moreover it is to be noted that we begin the year the first of September which is with us the Eve of St. John Baptists day the rest of the Feast days we keep at the same time that they are kept by the Church of Rome We must not omit that St. Philip the Apostle came into our Country and did there preach the Gospel of our Saviour Christ You must further know the name of our Emperour that it is Precious John or ●iam and no● Priest John as here it is falsly reported for it is written in our language ●iam Belul that is Precius or high John in the Chaldaique Language it is written John E●coe which hath the same interpretation Precious or excellent John He is not to be named Emperour of the Abyssins as Matth. hath written but of the Ethiopians He being an Armenian could not know our affairs perfectly especially those that concern our Religion for that reason he declared many things to King Emanuel of happy Memory which are not so amongst us not out of any design of deceiving him for ●e was a good man but because ●e was well acquainted with our Religion The Empire many times doth ●ot fall to the share of the Eldest Son of the Emperour but to him ●nto whom the Father will give ●● He that now governs is the ●hird Son of the last Emperour ●e hath deserved that honour by ●is piety and respect which he had ●or his Father for when he was ●pon his death-bed he commanded all his Sons one after another ●o sit upon the Imperial Throne which they did he only excepted Far be it from me said he that I ●hould ascend to the Seat of my Lord and Father which pious mo●esty procured him the Empire ●●om his Father his name is David his Empire is very large and contains both Christians and Heathens In it are many Kings and Princes Earls Barons Grandees and much Nobility that is mo 〈…〉 obedient to him Gold and Silver are given and exchanged by weight Amongst us are many Towns and Cities but not such as I have seen in Portugal because Precious Giam doth always live i● a flying Camp and in Tents This Custom is observed that the Nobility might exercise themselves continually in Military Actions for we are surrounded on all with sides the enemies of our faith with whom we have often many Conflicts always or for the most part with success through the goodness of God This is the account Zaga Za●i gives of his own Country his Relation may be consulted by those that desire more satisfaction for brevity sake much of it is omitted Scaliger in the eighth Book

THE LATE TRAVELS Of S. Giacomo Baratti An Italian Gentleman Into the remote Countries of the Abissins or of Ethiopia Interior Wherein you shall find an exact account of the Laws Government Religion Discipline Customs c. of the Christian people that do Inhabit there with many Observations which some may improve to the advantage and increase of Trade with them Together with a Confirmation of this Relation drawn from the Writings of Damianus de Goes and Jo. Scaliger who agree with the Author in many particulars Translated by G. D. London Printed for Benjamin Billingsley at the Printing-Press in Broad-street and at the same sign in the Piazza over against Popes-head-alley near the Royal Exchange in Cornhil 1670. To the Worshipful Thomas Windham Esq SIR HEre are the Travels of our Italian Gentleman that you have so long desired to peruse in our Language It is an excellent description of that Great Empire that is so near related unto us by Religion and nevertheless at such a distance from us I hope it will fully answer your expectation for you shall find in it most delightful passages with an exact account of the Manners Laws Government and of all other particulars in the Dominions of Ethiopia worth the notice of an Ingenious Traveller It may be that this small Treatise may meet with the ill fortune which such are to expect that thwart or disapprove of grand designs and furt●us enterprises It matters not what aspersions may be raised to darken its Truth and hinder its appearance and credit I hope the probability of all the matters related that may be also gathered from the place where it was first published will dissipate all envious vapours and cause Ethiopia to appear amongst ●s in its own shape and form Our Gentleman had committed an act not agreeable to that Judgment that he shews in his writings to publish things of a Kingdom so well known to most parts of Italy by reason of the continual correspondency that the Princes of it do entertain by their Factors with the Grand Neguz had there been any thing in his Relation not real ●r untrue His Book had not found that universal applause to be twice honoured with the Press had it not found amongst his Country-men a reception suitable to its worth Let the ill-natured and pe●vish minds that credit nothing but what they see esteem of this I ra●slation and of the original as they please I know Sir that all sober-minded Persons as your self will find both Sweetness and Profit in the Reading of it however I should desire that you will look upon these labours as a Confirmation of tha Title that I shall alwayes covet I mean of Sir Your most faithful and obliged Servant G. D. A DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY OF Precious John Vulgarly called PRESTER JOHN THe Empire of Aethiopia is not inferiour to the largest in the World if we consider that vast Continent that was anciently and should be now under the Command of the lawful Heir It contained above thirty large Kingdoms and many fruitful Provinces well furnished with Men and stored with Rich Commodities but the late unhappy Wars with the Neighbour Kings have much weakned this growing Empire and reduced it to a little number The Turks the Gialas the King of Mozambique the Moors and several others that surround this Christian Principality have dis-membred the Provinces and Kingdoms that were anciently subject to it and submitted them to their several Jurisdictions The Moors have seized on the Sea-coast the Turks have conquer'd the most fruitful Kingdoms that confine upon Egypt the Gialas a war-like Re-publick of Africa command several large Territories that belong unto this Imperial Crown The King of Mozambique and the rest have robbed it of its chief Jewels and Ornaments so that at present it is nothing so large nor so considerable as formerly it was The cause of these great Losses must be attributed to the Cowardise and unexperience of the Inhabitants more inclinable to Superstition than war-like feats and to the diversity of Religion in which these Nations differ much from the Abyssins The Turks and Moors are nourished up in the Mahumetan the Gialas and they of Mozambique in the Heathenish Idolatrie which cannot comply with the Christian Truth The Professors of the former have a natural antipathy against the Proselites of the latter insomuch that they can scarce suffer them to breath in the same air This hatred entertained by the different ways of worshipping the Creator hath fomented all these wars and troubles that have for many hundred years shaken the Abyssin Empire and separated from it the most excellent and the largest Provinces that did belong unto it so that at present it is reduced to a very narrow Circuit in comparison of what it was The Emperour nevertheless maintains the same State as he did formerly and claims a right to all those Kingdoms that he hath lost His present Dominions are not above 800 English miles in length and 600 in bredth they contain these Kingdoms Amara Tigremahon Angot Xoa G●●ama Bagamidri Damut Fategar Barnagaez Baru Tigrai Vangue so that they are limited on the North by Nubia and the Mountains and Sands that separate them from Egypt on the East by the Kingdoms of Zangebara Aiana and Adel which lie upon the red Sea on the South the Provinces of Cafutes and Fungi do shut it and on the West this Empire confines upon Congo Medra and the Blacks This Rich and In-land Country I have discovered by my Travels and now that I am so happily returned to my own Native soil after so long and troublesome a Journey I owe to my Country a Relation of those things that I have learned which I may say never any knew so much of this place before as the Reader may find in this Book In the year 1655. some Merchants of Florence were preparing to sail for Alexandria I resolved to adventure my self in their Company out of a great desire to visit the Holy-Land and see forrein places I had then received some discontent at home which made me seek my satisfaction abroad having therefore furnished my self with large sums of money and a Man Servant I embarqued with them in a Dutch bottom and in a fortnights time we landed in that ancient City which Alexander had built The plague was then very hot in that place which obliged us to a short stay there Some French Merchants were then going for Grand Cairo my company perswaded me to take my journey with them and visit the curiosities of that large City I was not willing to take that Road so soon for I desired first to pay my devotions at the Sepulcher of our Lord but the perswasions of my friends forced me to leave that journey until my return because we could not find a fit opportunity to travel into the Holy-Land I went therefore with the French Merchants to Catro and spent some days there in viewing all the Rari●●es of that