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A50651	A geographical description of the world with a brief account of the several empires, dominions, and parts thereof : as also the natures of the people, the customs, manners, and commodities of the several countreys : with a description of the principal cities in each dominion : together with a short direction for travellers.	Meriton, George, 1634-1711.	1671 (1671)	Wing M1790; ESTC R32424	97,458	377

places of pleasure and profit Zambra is greater containing 30000 Houses and innumerable concourse of people It stands in the Kingdom of Caffates and near the great Lake called hereof Zambra where the Emperour leaving his wonted manner of removing up and down in Tents hath fixed his Court-Royal and yet without the City are many Tents belonging to the Court The other Cities are Cossonum Zameta Aruma Eranco and Suachen besides the Kings Court which is as a wandring City for with his Tents and Pavilions belonging to him he covereth no less than ten miles Buildings Their Houses in Ethiopia are for the most part round all of Earth flat-roofed covered with Thatch compassed with Yards They sleep on Ox-Hides they have neither Table nor Table-Clothes but have their Meat served in on wooden Platters some eat Flesh raw others broyl it The Person of this Emperour is very much honoured nay adored by the common People to whom he sheweth himself but thrice a year viz. Christmas Easter and Holy-Rood Thus much of the Ethiopian Empire Of Ethiopia Exterior EThiopia Inferior called also Exterior hath on the East the Red Sea West the Aethiopian Ocean North Terra Nigrarum and South the Southern Ocean Division The usual division of this Region is into five parts viz. Aian Benomotapa Zanzibar Cafaria and Congo Aian Aian after the Arabian account containeth all that Region that lyeth between the mouth of the Red Sea and Quilimanci being for the most part on the Sea-coast inhabited by the said Arabians but in the Inland-part thereof are People of a black heathenish Nation It comprehendeth two Kingdoms Adel and Adea the former of which extendeth it self from the mouth of the Red Sea to the Cape Guardasu South and West it bordereth on the Dominion of Prester John about the Kingdom of Fatigar Fertility It aboundeth with Flesh Honey Wax Corn Gold Ivory The chief City is Arar Zeila also and Barbora pertain to this ●ingdom Cities without the Streit on the Sea much frequented by Merchants It is stored with variety of Merchandize and yieldeth some representation of Antiquity in building thereof consisting of Lime and Stone Adea is situate between Adel Abassia and the Sea to which last it is tributary The chief Towns are Brava Pate and Gogia these two last belong to the Portugal Zanzibar Zanzibar extendeth from the River Quilimanci to Benomotape It is a low fenny woody Countrey with many Rivers which by the extremity of moisture causes the Air to be intemperate From the Waste upward they go naked Herein are contained the Territories of Melinde Mombara Quiloa Mozambique and others Melinde is the name of a Kingdom and of the chief City thereof The Inhabitants near the Sea are Moors and build their Houses after the manner of Europe Quiloa is the name of a City and Island which is a Kingdom of the Moors and extendeth her Dominion far in the Coast The People of this Island use when they have female-Children born to sew up the private passages of nature leaving only a small passage for the Urine and if they want this sign of their Virginity when they are married they are disgracefully sent home to their Parents and by them as opprobiously received Here are divers other Kingdoms also as Mombara Mozimba Macuas Embeve and against them the Promontory Prassum Mozambique by this name is signified a Kingdom in the Continent and Island also with a safe harbour Mozambique Island is inhabited by Portugals which have there a strong Castle Here the Portugal Ships winter they have Trade in the Continent in Sena Macura Sofala and Cuama Sofala is a rich Kingdom and abounds in Gold and Ivory it lyeth between Cuama and Magnice two Rivers Here the Portugals have on a little Island a Port and Factory of very rich Trade the People bringing great quantity of Gold for their Cloth and other Commodities it is supposed that it amounteth to two millions yearly Orfe is of opinion that this Sofala is that which in Solomon's time was called Ophir Besides these Kingdoms before-mentioned here are Gorova Colta Norzuge Moneulo Baduis and Monoemagi which is rich in Gold Benomotopa Benomotopa is almost invironed round with Waters having on the West and South the River call●d Rio D'Infanto on the East the Ocean and on the North the River Quama This Countrey is in compass 450 miles and aboundeth with such store of Elephants that no less than 5000 are yearly killed for their Teeths sake Here are said to be 3000 Mines of Gold the chief being Manica Boro and Quitiani The Mines nearest to Sofala are those of Manica which are in wide Champaignes compassed with Mountains 90 miles in circuit The places where the Gold is appear and are known by the dryness and barrenness of the Soyl. In the Mines of Boro and Quiticui and in the Rivers is found Gold but not so pure The chief Provinces are Motana Tocoa Melchucha Quinibebe Berfaca and Banagall The chief Cities are Benomotopa Zimbas and Tongum the Kings Seat Natures of the People All the People of this Region are of curled Hair and are more ingenious than those which are against Mozambique Quiloa and Melinde among whom are many that eat Mans Flesh and let their Kine blood to satisfie their thirst They punish nothing more than Witch-craft Adultery and Theft Cafraria Cafraria hath on the East Rio D'Infanto West and South the Ocean and North Lune Montes The People live like Beasts and are as black as Pitch Here are in this Countrey besides great herds of Oxen and Sheep abundance of Deer Antilopes Baboons Foxes Hares Ostriches Cranes Pelicans Herons Geese Ducks Phesants Partridges In this Countrey near the Cape of good Hope the People esteem so much of Brass or Iron and other trifles that they would exchange their Cowes and Sheep for a piece of old Iron scarce worth four pence Congo Congo hath on the East Aubassia West the Ethiopian Ocean North the Land of Negros and South the Hills called Lune Montes The Provinces of this Kingdom are 1. Matama this is a Kingdom great and mighty the Air thereof is wholsome Fertility the Earth outwardly furnished with store of Fruits inwardly with Mines of Christal and other Metals Angola was sometime a Province of this Kingdom but it is now a Kingdom of it self and very populous Here are Mines of Silver and most excellent Copper They have many Kine but love Dogs better than any other Flesh and fat them to the Shambles These Countreys are very populous insomuch that they sell to the Portugals yearly 28000 Slaves The chief Towns are 1. Benza call'd by the Portugals S. Savours 2. S. Pall lying on the Sea-shore It is the principal Haven in these parts Thus much of Ethiopia Exterior Egypt THis Kingdom is confined on the East with the Arabian Desarts those of Bara Lybia and Numidia West South it is divided from Ethiopia by the

which yieldeth Corn Spices Cocos Jaceros and many other Fruits and by the situation as the Staple especially before the Portugals unfriendly Neighbourhood of Indian Merchandize and therefore in her variety of Merchants being a Map as it were of all the Eastern World The Egyptians Persians Syrians Arabians Indians yea even from Catay the space of 6000 miles had here their trade and traffick The People here do yield divine honour to divers of the deceased Saints and build Temples unto Beasts The Gentlemen and Merchants have a custome to exch●nge Wives in token of great friendship Some Women amongst them have six or seven Husbands fathering their Children on which of them she best pleaseh The Men when they marry get others to use them if they be Virgins 15 or 20 dayes before they themselves do bed them Cranganor is a small Kingdom the Inhabitants of this City are Christians of St. Thomas profession about 70000 in number Cochin is now grown great by the Portugals traffick and friendship of the rest there there is not much worth recital The King of Coulam's Dominion stretcheth some 80 miles in which there is some 23 walled Towns Balassia Balassia or the Kingdom of Bocan is famous for its inexhaustible Mines of Gold and Silver The chief Cities of it are 1. Balassia 2. Bocan 3. Senergian Cambaia Cambaia is also called Guzant containing in length from the River Bate to Circam a Persian Region 500 miles of Sea-coast being on other parts invironed with the Kingdoms of Dulcinda and Sanga on the North Mandao on the East and on the West the Gedrosians the Sea and confines of Decan are the Southerly bounds It hath in it by estimation 60000 inhabited places watered with many streams the chief whereof is Indus Fertility This Countrey is very fertil not yielding to any other in India in the Fruits which the Trees and Earth bring forth beside the store of Elephants Gems Silk Cotton and such like Natures of the People The People are of an Olive-colour go naked except about their privy parts they eat no Flesh but Rice Milk Barley and other lifeless creatures Their chief Sea-Towns are Daman Bandora Curate Ravellum and within Land Cambaia Mallabar Campanel and Tanaa Cambaia hath bestowed the name on the whole Kingdom which they call the Indian Cairo for the excellency thereof it standeth three miles from Indus The Inhabitants of it are a mixture of Mahometans Moors Persians Bannyans and from Arabia they are crafty and deceitfull the Priests are singularly reputed of the Women proper but vailed and obscure in their best aspect their faces they colour their teeth black thinking that shews most delight and beauty ard to differ from Dogs whose teeth are white their Apparel is like the other Indians Mandao Mandao this Kingdom is so called of the chief City 1. Mandao which being 30 miles in compass held out a siege of twelve years 2. Molta where the Women ride booted and spur'd 3. Scernus 4. Polymbothia Bengala Bengala the Kingdom of Bengala is very large and hath a coast 120 leagues and as much within Land the River Chaberis watereth it Riches It is plentifull in Rice Wheat Sugar Ginger Long Pepper Cotton and Silk and enjoyeth a very wholesome Air. The Inhabitants near the shore are for the most part Mahumetans Gouro the State-Royal and Bengala are fair Cities Chatigan is also reckoned among the Cities Natures of the People They are a most subtil and wicked People and are esteemed the worst slaves in all India for that they are all Thieves and the Women Whores although this fault is common through all India no place excepted Here are found great abundance of Rhinocerots whose Horn and all other parts is good against poyson Oristan Oristan the Kingdom of Oristan hath on the Sea-coast 350 miles betwixt the richer Kingdoms of Bengala and Bisnagar poor of Ports and traffick Raman is the Royal City The Inhabitants except a few Moors are Gentiles little or nothing differing in Rites from their Neighbours Canora Canora the chief Cities of this Kingdom are 1. Vltabat 2. Danggar 3. Lispoe famous for her quarries of Adamant Six leagues from Decan is a Hill out of which the Diamond is taken this Hill is kept by a Garrison and walled about Dellie Dellie the Kingdom of Dellie is Northerly subject to cold and frosts as in Europe The chief Cities of this Kingdom are 1. Dellie 2. Besmer famous for the study of Magick 3. Tremell and 4. Fultabar This Prince liveth in great state having a Revenue correspondent thereunto his Subjects do reverence him exceedingly making it Holy-day when he cutteth his Hair or shaveth his Beard He is alwayes carried on Mens shoulders in a pompous Chair adorned richly Thus much of India intra Gangem India extra Gangem INdia extra Gangem hath on the East China West the rest of India This India hath formerly been divided amongst 12 Potentates but now by the prosperous fortune of the Kings of Siam and Brama it is wholly subject to their command The most remarkable of these 12 Kingdoms are Machin Arachan Camboia Cauchin-China Brama Siam and Pegu. Machin Machin This Kingdom is accounted famous for the Wood called by us Aloes by the Latin Writers Lignum Vitae this Wood is valued at its weight in pure Silver The chief City is Machin Arachan Arachan This Kingdom is environed round with Mountains and impenetrable Woods The chief Cities are 1. Arachan 2. Ava famous for her abundance of Gems Camboia Camboia This is a great and populous Countrey full of Elephants and Abadas this Beast is the Rhineceros The chief City is Camboia a Town of great Traffick and Commerce for its plenty of Gold Silver and Aloes and other Commodities of great worth Treacherous people They are a treacherous people as may appear by their dealing with the Hollanders in 160● whom they invited to the shore with promise of certain Buffs and then cruelly slew them Cauchin-China Cauchin-China This Kingdom is situate between the River Cantan and the Kingdom of Siam divided into three Provinces and as many Kings Riches It aboundeth with Gold Silver Aloes Porcelane and Silk Their chief City is Cauchin-●hina situate on the Sea much frequented by Merchants for Porcelan●… or China-Dishes here made Brama Brama Of this Kingdom of Brama the City-Royal is Pegu the Nation where began the greatness of the late Kings not long since This Kingdom was of no estimation but now hath he made all his Neighbours his Homagers having subjected to his Seigniory 12 Kingdoms being all of them rich in the best Commodities that the Indians afford Siam Siam This was not long since the Queen or Lady of this part of India but now is subject to the King of Brama The principal Cities are 1. Malaca now subject to the Portugals they have there their Bishop and a Colledge of

A GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE WORLD WITH A brief Account of the several Empires Dominions and Parts thereof As also the Natures of the People the Customs Manners and Commodities of the several Countreys With a Description of the Principal Cities in each Dominion Together with a short Direction for Travellers LONDON Printed for William Leake at the Crown in Fleet-street between the two Temple-Gates 1671. A GEOGRAPHICALL DESCRIPTION of the WORLD Sold by William Leake at the Crowne in Fleetstreet THE BOOKSELLER TO THE READER THis Piece is not publish'd so much for the Profit of the Bookseller as of the Reader For it is but a Little One and there is but Little to be gotten by it So that without any other Recommendation I shall leave the Work to speak for it self The Drawing of the WORLD into this Epitome is out of pure good Will to such as have Curiosity enough perchance but neither Time nor Money to take a View of it more at large And this Charitable Intention of the Abstracter hath been accompanied with a singular Care in the manner of Doing it and to supply in Weight what is wanting in Bulk That is to say Here is a most exact Account given of the Vniverse it self and of every Part of it the Scituation of all the Kingdoms in it States Provinces Cities and Dominions together with their respective Limits and Jurisdictions their Growth and Commodities with the principal Rivers Palaces and other things remarkable The Quality of the Soyl the Temperature of the Climate with the Religion Manners Dispositions Laws and Customs of the People and some Touches upon their Interests Alliances and Dependences To which are added certain Advices for Travellers This is the Brief of this Compendium and the Bookseller hath nothing more to say but that he wishes Health to the Reader W. L. A TABLE of the Names of the principal Places contained in this Book A. ADriatick Sea Page 286 Africa 214 African Isses 333 Alpes 25 America 255 American Islands 338 Arabia 162 Armenia 158 Asia 115 Assyria 166 B. Baleares 296 Barbary 216 Britain 299 Burgundy 20 C. Candia 280 Cathaie 189 Chaldea 169 China 206 Cimbrick Chersonese 87 Corsica 294 Creta 279 Cyprus 330 D. Dacia 135 Denmark 85 Directions for Travellers 345 E. East-India 192 Egean Sea 274 Egypt 247 England 300 Ethiopia Superior 234 Ethiopia Inferior 240 Europe 1 Euxinus 271 F. Florence 42 France 11 G. Geneva 23 Genoa 50 Germany 64 Greece 123 H. Hebrides 314 Hungary 109 I. India Extra Gangem 202 Ionian Isles 282 Ireland 310 Isles of the Ocean 298 Islands of the Virginian Ocean 339 Italy 26 L. Limbourgh 56 Lorrain 21 Low Countreys 60 Lucca 52 Lybia 227 M. Madagascar 334 Malta 291 Mantuan 47 Media 179 Mediterranean Sea 288 Mesopotamia 167 Mexicana 256 Millain 46 Moscovy 97 N. Naples 29 Narsinga 194 Natolia 138 Negroes Land 230 Netherlands 53 Northern Isles 319 Norwey 91 Numidia 227 O. Orcades 313 Oriental Islands 321 P. Palestine 150 Papacy 33 Parma 50 Parthia 182 Persia 171 Peruana 263 Poland 102 Pontus 271 R. Rhodes 332 S. Sardinia 295 Savoy 22 Sclavonia 113 Scotland 306 Sicilia 289 Sorlings 315 Spain 3 Sporades 316 Swedeland 93 Syria 145 T. Tartaria 185 Transilvania 111 Turky 118 V. Venice 36 Urbin 49 W. Wales 304 ERRATA Page 310. line 1. for Virginia read Vergivian OF THE WORLD And First of EUROPE The WORLD is divided into four Parts Europe Asia Africa America LONDON Printed for William Leake at the Crown in Fleet-street 1671. OF Europe EVrope the least as being in length but 3800 miles and in breadth but 1200 is yet of most renown amongst us 1. Because of the temperature of the Air. 2. From the fertility of the Soyl. 3. From the study of all Arts. 4. Because of the Roman and Greek Monarchies 5. From the purity and sincerity of the Christian Faith It is joyn'd to Asia by that space of earth betwixt Tanais and Duina Asia is joyn'd to Africa by the Egyptian Istmus and America is divided from all of them Europe is separated from Asia by Duina Tanais Palus Maeotis Pontus Propontis Hellespont and the Aegean Sea Asia is parted from Africa by the Red Sea Africa from Europe by the Mediterranean Africa is greater than Europe Asia than Africa and America bigger than all Europe is divided into Continent and Islands The Continent is subdivided into Spain France Italy Belgia Germany Denmark Norway Sweden Moscovia Poland Hungaria Dacia Sclavonia and Greece The Islands are also in general either dispersed in the Greek Sea Aegean Cretan Jonian Adriatick Mediterranean the British or the Northern Seas Europe is so call'd of Europa Daughter to Aegenor King of the Phaenicians brought hither as the Poets feign by Jupiter in shape of a Bull. Of Spain THe most Western Countrey of the Continent of Europe is Spain invironed on all sides with the Sea except toward France from which it is separated by the natural strength of the Pyrenean Mountains and the artificial Fortresses of Pampelune on the North-West and Perpigna on the South-East Situation The whole circuit of this Countrey is 1893 English miles It is situate in the more Southerly part of the Northern temperate Zone and almost in the midst of the four and six Climates the longest day being fifteen hours in length Natures and Manners of the People They are a people much given to Women impudent braggers extreme proud and in their gate very stately and majestical But otherwise they are people very grave in their carriages and in offices of piety very devout to their King very obedient and of their civil duties to their betters not unmindfull of an unmoved patience in suffering adversities accompanied with a setled resolution to overcome them The Women are sober loving their Husbands or Friends wonderfull delicate curious in painting or perfuming Fertility This Countrey is enriched with Sacks Sugars Oyl Metals Liquoras Rice Silk Lamb-skins Wool Cork Rosin Steel Oranges Raisons and fruit of the like nature which owe most of their being to heat but in Corn it is very defective and receiveth from Italy France and Sicily Diet. The Cattel hereof are neither fair nor many so that their fare for the most part is on Sallets and Fruits of the earth every Gentleman being limited what flesh he shall buy for himself and his family Division This Kingdome is divided into twelve Provinces which were anciently Kingdomes viz. 1. Leon and Oniedo 2. Navarr 3. Corduba 4. Gallicia 5. Biscay 6. Tolledo 7. Murcia 8. Castile 9. Portugal 10. Valentia 11. Catelogue and 12. Aragon Of which in order Leon Oniedo This Kingdome hath on the East and South Biscay and Castile North the Ocean and West Gallicia The chief Towns of it are 1. Aviles 2. Palenza 3. Oniedo 4. Astorga 5. Leon. Navarr This is the second Kingdome for antiquity in Spain It hath on the East the Pyrenean Mountains West Iberus North Biscay and South