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A26435	A briefe description of the whole world wherein is particularly described all the monarchies, empires, and kingdoms of the same, with their academies, as also their severall titles and scituations thereunto adjoyning / written by the Reverend Father in God George Abbot ...	Abbot, George, 1562-1633.	1664 (1664)	Wing A62; ESTC R4619	117,567	344

for that is untrue in as much as the Aethiopians case doth not differ from the quality of other men The Spaniards did find the people to be here most simple without fraud giving them kind entertainment according to their best manner exchanging for knives and Glasses and such like toyes great abundance of Gold and Pearle It is certain that by the very light of Nature and by the ordinary course of humane shape there were among this people very many good things as affabilitie in their kind hospitalitie towards strangers which had not offended them according to their ability and open and plaine behaviour yea and in some parts of these West Indies there was an opinion in grosse that the soul was immortall and that there was life after this life where beyond certain hils they know not where those which dyed in defence of their Countrey should after their departure from this life remain in much blessednesse which opinion caused them to bear themselves very valiantly in their fights either striving to conquer their enemies or with very good contentment enduring death if it were their hap to be taken or slain in as much as they promised themselves a b●…tter reward elsewhere But withall as it could not chuse but be so there were many other grievous sins amongst them as adoration of Devils Sodomie Incest and all kind of Adultery Ambition in very high measure a deadly hatred each of other which proceeded all from the fountain of ignorance wherewith Satan had blinded their eyes yet there were among them some which by a kind of blind witch-craft had to evil purpose acquaintance and entercourse with foule spirits The manner of their attire or beautifying themselves which divers of these people had severally in severall parts did seeme very strange unto them who came first into that country For some of them did adorn themselves with the shells of fishes some did weare Feathers about their heads some had whole garments made of Feathers and those very curiously wrought and placed together of divers colours to which purpose they did most use the feathers of Peacocks or Parrots or such other birds whose colouring was of divers colours Yea in very many places they had their lower lips bor'd thorow with a great hole and something put into them as also into the upper parts of their ears being pierced in like manner which as it seemed to themselves to be a point of beauty so it made them appear to other men to be wonderful ugly The quantity of gold and silver which was found in those parts was incredible which is the true reason wherefore all things in Christendome as Bodin de Rep. observeth do serve to be sold at a higher rate then they were in the daies of our forefathers when indeed they had not so for as he noteth it is the plenty of gold silver which is brought from this America that maketh money to be in greater store and so may more easily be given then it could be in the daies of our Predecessors But for the thing it self it is testified by all writers that there were in those parts very great mines of the most precious metals that in the banks of rivers with the washing of the water there was divers ●…i mesfretted out very good and big pieces of gold which without melting and trying was of reasonable perfection and the like was to be found in many places of the Land when the people did dig for their husbandry or for any other use This made the inhabitants there for the commonnesse of it to account gold and silver but as a vile thing and yet by the reason of the colour of it for variety sake to be mingled with the Pearle divers of them did wear it about their necks and about their arms And yet we do find that in some part of the west Indies the Kings did make some reckoning of gold and by sire did try it out to the best perfection as may appeare by Attabaliba who had a great house piled upon the sides with great wedges of gold ready tryed which he gave to the Spaniards for a ransome of his life and yet they most perfidiouslie did take his life from him But the meane account ordinarily which the people had of gold did cause them very readily to bring unto the Spaniards at their first arrivall great store of that metall which they very readily exchanged for the meanest trifies and gewgawes which the other could bring even such things as wherewith children do use to play But there was nothing more acceptable unto them then Axes and Hammers Knives all tooles of Iron whereof they rather make account to cut down their timber to frame it and to do other such necessaries to their convenient use belonging then to fight or to do hurt each to other and therein may appear the great variety of Gods disposition of his creatures here and there when in all that maine Continent of America but especially in that which lieth between or near the Tropicks there is no Iron or Steel to be found which without doubt gave great way to the conquest of the strongest places there as of Mexico by name when armed men with Gunnes and other instruments of warre were to fight against them which were little better then naked and it was rightly upbraided by one of his Country-men to Ferdinandus Cortesius upon one of his returnes from America having made exceeding boast of his great victories in those parts and comming afterwards in service into Africk where he being hardly laid unto by the Moores and shewing ●…o valour at all it was remembred unto him that it was an easie thing for him to do al those exploits which he craked so much of in the West-Indies in as much as the people there had nothing to resist There was nothing more dreadfull to those unarmed men then the fight of Horses and men riding upon them whereof a very few did quickly over-bear many thousands of them even almost in the beginning of the discovery of those parts Ferdinandus and Elizabeth then King and Queen of Castile and after them Charles the fifth the Emperor who succeeded in their right partly to stir up their subjects to action and partly to procure unto themselves the more treasure with lesse expence and trouble of their own did give leave unto divers of their subjects that by speciall commission they might passe into those parts and there have severall Quarters and Countries allotted unto them where they might dig and try out Gold and Silver on condition that they did allow cleare unto the King the fifth part of such commodities as did arise unto them and therefore neere unto every Mine and Furnace the King had his speciall Officers which did daily attend and take up his Tribute And to the end that all things might the better be ordered both there and in Spaine concerning the

the one of Fezza or Fez which lyeth on the North part toward the Mediterranean and Spain the other is the Kingdome of Morocco which lyeth from above the hill Atlas minor to the South and West part of Mauritania These are both Saracens as be also their people holding true league with the Turke and with some other Christian Princes a league onely for Trafficke and Merchandize It may be doubted whether it was in this Mauritana Tingitana or rather but near unto it in Mauritania Caesoriens●… that which Saint Augustine in his book De doctrina Christiana doth of his own knowledge report that in a City of that Countrey was this brutish custome that once in the year for certaine dayes the Inhabitants of the place did assemble themselves into wide and large fields and there divided themselves each from other so that perhaps the Fathers were on one side and the children or brother on the other and did throw stones with such violence that many were hurt and divers killed with the fury of that assault But S. Augustine relleth that he de●…esting the brutishnesse thereof d●…d make a most eloquent and elaborate O●…ation or Sermon unto them whereby he did prevaile with those of the City where he was that the●… give over that foolish and rude exercise Yet Leo Ass●…icanus who lived about a hundred yeares since and in his owne person travelled over the greate part of Africke doth write in his description of Africke that in one place of the Kingdome of Fez this barba ●…us custome is yet retained Of the other Countries of Africke lying neare the Sea FRom beyond the hill Atlas major unto the South of Africke is nothing almost it Antiquity worthy the readiag and those things which are written for the most part are fables For towards the South par●… of Africke as well as towards the North part of Europe and Asia be supposed to be men of strange shapes as some with Dogs heads some without heads and some with one foot alone which was very huge and such like which that counterfeit Fryer who write that book which is counted Saint Augustines ad fraetres in Eremo and who would gladly father upon Saint Augustine the erecting of the Augustine Fryers doth say that he saw travelling down from Hippo Southward in Africa But as the Asse in Aesope which was cloathed in the Lyons skin did by his long ears shew himself to be an Ass and not a Lyon so this foolish fellow by his lying doth shew himself to be a counterfeit and not Saint Augustine In the new Writers there are some few things to be observed as first that all the people in generall to the South lying with the Zona Torrida are not onely blackish like the Moor but are exceeding blacke And therefore as in old time by an excellency some of them are called Nigritae so at this day they are named Negro's as then whom no men are blacker Secondly the Inhabitants of all these parts which border on the Sea coast even u●…to Caput bonae spei have been Gentiles adoring Images and foolish shapes for their Gods neither bearing of Christ nor beleeving on Mahomet till such time as the Portugals comming among them having professed Christ for themselves but have won few of the people to embrace their Religion Thirdly that the Portugals passing along Africa to the East Indies have setled themselves in many places of those Countries building Castles and Townes for their own safety and to keep the people in subjection to their great commodities One of the first Countries famous beyond Morocco is Guinea which we call Ginnie within the compasse whereof lyeth the Cape called the Cape Verde and the other the Cape of the three points and the Towne and Castle named Si●…rta Li●…na at which place as commonly all Travellers do touch that do p●…sse that way for fresh ●…er and ●…ther sh●…p-provision ●…ur English men have found tra●… icke into the parts of this Countrey where th i●… greatest comm●…dity is Gold and Elephants teeth of both which there is good store Beyond that toward the South not ●…arre from the Equinoctiall lyeth the K●…gdome of Congo com monly called Mani-congo Where the Portugals at their first arrivall finding the people to be Heathens without G●…d did induce them to a profession of Christ and to be baptized in great abundance allowing of the principles of Religion untill such time as the Priest did teach them to lead their lives according to their profession which the most part of them in no case enduring they returned back again to their Gentilisme Beyond Mani-congo so fare to the South as almost ten degrees beyond the Tropicke of Capricorne lyeth the Lands end which is a promontory now called Caput bonae spei which Vascus Gama the Portug●…l did discover and so called it because he had there good hope that the Land did turn to the North and that following the course th●…reof hee might bee brought to Arabia and Persia but es●…ecially to Calecut in India Which course when himself and other o●… his Countrey-men after him did follow th●…y fou●…d on the coast up towards Arabia the Kingdome of Mosambique Melinda Magadazo and others whose people were all Gentiles and now are in league with the Portugals who have built divers holds for their safety Of which Countries and manners of the people he that listeth to read may finde much in the History of Oso 〈◊〉 and Petrus Maffaeus but there is no matter of any great importance Beyond the Cape toward the North before you come to Mosumbique between the Rivers of Cuama and Sancto Spirito lyes the Kingdome of Monomotapa where the Portugals also have arrived and so much was done there by the preaching of Gonsalvo de Silva a Jesuite that the King and Queen of that Countrey with many others were converted from Gentilisme to Christiani●…y and baptized But certaine Mahumetans incensing the King thereof afterwards against the Portugals made him to revolt from his Religion and to put to death this Jesuite and divers others Which fact of his the Portugals assavi●…g to revenge with an Army sent for out of Portugall they profited little against him but were themselves consumed by the discommodities of the Countrey and the distemperature of the a●…e There are also other Kingdomes sin this part of Africke of whom we know little besides their names and site in generall as Adel Monomugi Angola and therefore it shall be sufficient to have named them in a word Of Abissines and the Empire of Prester John IN the Inland of Africke lyeth a very large Countrey extending it self on the East to some part of the Red Sea on the South to the Kingdome of Molinda and a great way farther on the North to Egypt on the West to Manicongo The people whereof are called Abissini and it self the dominion of him whom we commonly call in English Prester John