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A16279	The discription of the contrey of Aphrique the fyrst part of the worlde, with the cituation of al the countreys together, with the perticuler maners lawes, and ceremonies, of dyuers people inhabityng in the same part. Translated out of Frenche into Englyshe by Wyllyam Prat of London, the fyrst daye of the newe yere, M.CCCCC.LIIII. Rede it dylygently, marke it perfectly, reuolue it thorowly, beare it equally, beholde the auctours simplicitie, and prayse God almyghty.; Omnium gentium mores. Book 1. English	Joannes, ca. 1485-1535.; Prat, William.	1554 (1554)	STC 3196.5; ESTC S112745	45,413	174

not hauynge trauayled We do se that the knowledge of these thinges hath ben so agreable and pleasaunt to many that it hath redowned to theyr greate honour glory and profyte As it is moste certeyne that many hath not refused to theyr ende to atteyne to this knowledge leaft theyr natyue contreys theyr fathers mothers wyfe chyldren and frendes not regardinge the which is more their helth and salut to put them selues in infinit dangers contempnynge all thynges whiche moue them frō theyr enterpryses yea and to their peyne haue taken vppon theym the longe and dangerous vyage by sea whereby as I knowe not only but this tyme present but also in tyme paste in a maner sins the worlde began most comonly they haue ben in great credit auctoritie and reputacion and made gouernours of publyke weales and growen to be councellers Iudges greate capyteynes or chyefe of armour and all by the experiens of many people with maner of theyr vsages and lyuinges and longe viages in contreis Other hath atteined to so great knowledge that of the great nombre of their disciples were instructed diuers bēds of the Phylosophers lyke as of Socrates were called Socrateques thother which were the disciple of Plato● were nominated achademiques Those of Aristotel Peripathetiques Those of Antisthenes Ciniques those of Aristippus were called Cirenaiques of Zenon Stoiques of Pythagoras Pithagoriques And if we loke a lyttle nyer we shal finde that they which haue giuē so much auctoritie to the auncient lawers as to Minos and Rhadamantus to wardes them of Crete Orpheus to them of Thrace Draco and Solon to the Athiens Licurgus to the Lacedemoniens Moyses to the Iues and dyuers towardes other nations that euery one of them might be instructed and to instytute certeyne religion and lawes Yf these men had kept theyr owne contreys this had not ben but bycause they consumed theyr age in other countreys they were able to instructe hauyng afterward the same knowledge of the Caldes Mages Br●●●manes Gimnosophistes the prests of Egypte whiche were all men of great knowledge and of a most excellent naturall wit with whome they hadde frequented a certeyne space and tyme. we do also fynde that this knowledge hath greatly serued the excellent personages and princes in the olde tyme as ●upiter of Crete whō the poet wryteth dyd meet the Circuite of the world fyue tymes To his two chyldren as to Dionisos otherwyse called Bacchus to Hercules the strōge with his immitatour Thes●ns Iasō with all his bende To Vlisses whiche inuaded so much the daungers of the sea and to Aeneas of Troy to Titus Darius Xerxes Alexander the great Hanibal Metridatis king of Pont which coulde speke fyftye languages of the fyfty Realmes whiche was vnder him The innumerable nobles of Rome as to the two Scipions to Marius Lētulus Pompeie the great Iulius Cesar Octauian august To the Constantines Charles Otheons Courades Henryz Federiz and that in theyr actes of warres by the whiche they haue purchased to theym selues eternall glory and prayse Seynge then the knowledge of dyuers nations is greately to be delited in and profytable I shal desyre the gentyl reader to put to thy good wyll and reade ouer the thynges conteyned in this boke for to this purpose the same be gathered together to reduce the aswell to a perfection of knowledge bothe of the countreys and the nature of eche people as if I shuld leade the by the hand from one place to an other from one region to an other or to poynte the with my finger I haue manifested to me the maner of the lyuinge as well of the auncient as of freshe memory together with the cituacion of al countreys and how they were inhabited in olde tyme and be nowe present And be not offended with me gentyll reader for want of austeritie In that I haue not holly satisfied thy appetite as peraduenture thou desyrest I haue done it rather to chalenge vnto my selfe rebuke and shame then praise yet I haue wrytten neyther of the thynges passed nor presente but they haue ben more then a thousande tymes spoken of in the same termes in hundreth of auctours I wold not thou shuldest thinke that I do attrybute all this worke or inuention to my owne doynge and to haue it set forth for any newaltie to satisfie some perticuler man I shal hartly desyre the gentyl reader vnderstande of me that I do entreate of many thynges worthy of knowledge parte came of my selfe and parte also of the treasure of my bookes and as the good father of a famylie to whom our sauiour Chryst hath compared al mē that professe the faith to his housholde so iudge of me that these whiche I heare presente be auncient thynges come from strange auctours I require the beare me good wyll and take all thynges in good part prayeng God to meinteyne the in prosperitie which I beseche hym hertely to graunt Amen Finis ¶ THE TREVVE OPINIon of the diuine wryters touchyng the Original of Man The fyrst Chapiter AFter that the diuine maiestie of God had finished the creation of the heauens and vniuersal frame the whiche for his ornament and most comely composicion was called Mundus together with al thynges conteyned in the Cyrcuite of the same at the fyfthe day of his creacion vpon the syxt daye the mooste noble creature called Man was made for to be lord ouer the thinges aboue mencioned Leauyng to him the vse and pleasures of thē Of al other creatures he was only endued with celestiall wysedome and had the name of Adā gyuen vnto him because he was made of a veyne of red earth A whyle after was gyuen to him a company keper to the entente that solitarines shulde not anoy him The woman which was made of his rybbe They were set in the moost delectable place of the worlde beynge compassed with fayre ryuers that place was replenished with yonge sprynges trees herbes and flowers wonderfull pleasaunt and delectable to behold and for that cause it was called Paradyse by a greeke terme These two persons for a space led a most happy lyfe and without feelynge of yll for the earthe of her selfe brought forth al fruites at desyre Notwithstandynge for breaking the commaundementes of God they were dryuen to forsake that place after that the earth was acursed whereby she brought nothynge forth accordynge to her former fertillitie They were constrayned to seke theyr lyuyng with swet and laboure then raygned all kyndes of syckenesse felynge of colde and heate vppon the humayne bodyes Cain was the fyrst begotten chylde of theim and Abel was the second and after them many more and so encreased the world and the earth was well inhabyted The more the nomber of men multiplied the more did they encrease in vyce and theyr lyuynge dyd dayly waxe from il to worse In steade of good doinge to theyr neyghbours they began to annoy and hurt one an other and in steade of acknowlegynge of the creatour they had

aboue said people towardes the Midy inhabyteth other people whiche they cal Icthiophages who althoughe they haue the faces of men yet they dyffer nothynge frome beastes in theyr lyuynges these people dwell vnder the Troglodites in the greate sea Arabie they be very barbarous At altymes they be naked their wifes and chyldren be common and lyke brute beastes they do not feale any volupe lupt or passion in thē selues except it be after theyr bodyes feale good or euyll These people be voyde of discretion good maners and honestye They dwell in ryuers and crekes of the sea along by the waters and in the hyghe countreyes in the whiche places be founde many depe caues and longe valleyes Therbe dyuers narowe holes daungerous at the enteryng euyl at the cōminge out In so muche that whiche foloweth a man may iudg the countrey by nature to be made after the fashiō of the Icthiophages for they gathered great heapes of stones and layed them before the entryng of all croked places and made more suche inuentions for the nettes to take fyshe of the sea because in the sea whan the flude cōmeth it chaūseth aboute nonetyde all the place nighe be cōpassed and closed about with waters and they growe to suche an infinite nomber that they couer al the countrey and bringeth a great quantitie of fishe which do swyme hither and thyther to fynde theyr pasture so in the ende at the retournynge agayne of the sea the water do caste theym vp amongest the heapes of stones and then the fyshe lye drie and they be gathered by the people inhabytynge in that contrey which do runne with their wyfe and chyldren and gather the sayd fishes for their prouision And when they dresse the sayde fyshe to eate they lay it vpon the stones to wardes the Midy or nontyde and burnethe it in the heate of the sonne and doth let it lye vpon the one syde a whyle and turneth the other side whē they thinke it is rosted inough they plucke out all the fleshe put it in a hollowe stone which is lyke vnto a morter then mixeth it with the grayne of a gosebery tree or much lyke to it these mingled together so well that it maketh goodly meate to eate they set it in the son after they haue put it together they make it lyke in proprietie to a tyle This they vse for all theyr meate with great abundance and ioy and seruethe theym insteade of corne when it chaunce that the find of the sea abyde styll and nothynge deminyshe by reason wherof they were forced to leaue theyr comodytie of fyshynge and that they abyde hunger Then they heape together the shels of the sea which be veri great and do breake thē with stones and so fead of the fleshe they fynd with in the sayde shelles the whiche is in taste lyke to an oyster of the sea Ageyne if this kynd of lyuyng wer taken from theym by continuall tempestes and wyndes They take the bones of the fyshes by theym gathered afore and gnaweth it like a dogge the tender and freshe And the hardest bone they breake with stones In so doynge they dyffer nothynge from beastes This kind of vitell they receyue for theyr repast with great ioye as I rehearsed before syngynge and makynge good chere one with an other And after that euery one of them by the care they haue to get chyldren do accompany with the fyrste woman they mete without hauynge any solicitude all theyr lyfe longe whiche commeth by reason of the afflu 〈…〉 which to theym be 〈…〉 for the space of v. days to that maner of lyuynge the syxte daye they go together to fynde the welles to drink by the way as they go they crye both in one voyce in suche sorte that a man woulde iudge them rather to be the crieng of a multytud of wyld bestes then mens voyces As soone as they come to the fountaynes they receyue in such abundaunce of water that they can not wel retourne ageyne but rest them selues there and can eate no more beynge afterwarde as men troubled or rather dronken The next day folowyng they retourne a fisshynge and in this sorte passynge theyr lyues beyng a very fewe of them sicke and that is for because they eate but one kynde of meate yet for al that they liue not so longe 〈…〉 of other natiōs their 〈…〉 this cost to theyr lodgynge and by the pleasaunt shadowes they are tempr●●● 〈◊〉 must vnderstand that the caues of that countrey the whiche haue theyr throtes towardes the Midy be as hote as a furnasse because of the heate of the sonne consequently doth folow that they be neuer inhabited wherfore almē of that contrey doth couer to dwell towardes the Septentrion Such was the maner and lyuynge of the two I●thiophages There restethe yet to speke of the Amazones whiche as they say in tyme past was of one part of Aphrique in the contrey of ●●bie They were women of warre and of good courage gretly differryng frome the women in our age and tyme. A certeyne time of theyr age they were accustomed to exercyse the seate of warre and by that kept theyr virginitie After that they had passed theyr age as abouesayd they maried husbands to encrease chyldren They had the prehemines to gouerne all publike matters for the common weale was ruled by them in such sort ruled the women that theyr husbandes had the charge of al the domestical affayres whiche we accustomably commit to our wyues And the wiues to the contrary ruled as our men do heare yea so circumspecte they were that theyr husbandes shulde not take in hande any publyke matter that they woulde not suffer theym once to speke in causes touchyng the common weale So sone as they be in theyr bed theyr chyldren be gyuen men to kepe and they to nourse them which infants be brought vp with wylke and other meates agreable for theyr age If a woman had ben deliuered of a man chylde he shulde haue had either his ryght arme broken or ben killed But if she had brought forth a female or woman chylde they woulde burne her brestes with an hote yron for to take away al that which might let her in the warres and for that cause they were called with the Greekes Amazones That is to say women without brestes They did inhabite as it is writtē in an Ilande called Hespera which was so named for that it aprocheth nygh the Occident and is within the lake Tritonide nygh to the Ocean sea That lake is so called by reson of the ryuer Triton whiche passeth thorowe the same beyng cituated to Ethiope and to the me unt Atlas which is one of the hygheste and wydest in all that countrey This Ilande is greate replenished with trees and a bundance of frute In that countrey is plenty of shepe wherwith most of the people be refreshed and fedde Wheate is vnknowē to the inhabiters of that contrey because there neuer grewe none there A