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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06339	A report of the kingdome of Congo, a region of Africa And of the countries that border rounde about the same. 1. Wherein is also shewed, that the two zones torrida & frigida, are not onely habitable, but inhabited, and very temperate, contrary to the opinion of the old philosophers. 2. That the blacke colour which is in the skinnes of the Ethiopians and Negroes &c. proceedeth not from the sunne. 3. And that the Riuer Nilus springeth not out of the mountains of the Moone, as hath been heretofore beleeued: together with the true cause of the rising and increasing thereof. 4. Besides the description of diuers plants, fishes and beastes, that are found in those countries. Drawen out of the writinges and discourses of Odoardo Lopez a Portingall, by Philippo Pigafetta. Translated out of Italian by Abraham Hartwell.; Relatione del reame di Congo. English	Lopes, Duarte.; Pigafetta, Filippo, 1533-1604.; Hartwell, Abraham, b. 1553.; Rogers, William, b. ca. 1545, engraver. aut	1597 (1597)	STC 16805; ESTC S108820	127,173	219

The Chiefest Prince and being so ioyned together in one worde it appertayneth to the King alone and to no man else He beareth also the surname of Dauid as the Emperours of Rome doo vse the name of Cesars Now it remayneth that we doo discourse of the riuer Nilus which doth not spring in the Countrye of Bel-Gian much lesse out of the mountains of the Moone nor as Ptolomie writeth out of the two Lakes which he setteth down in Parallele from the East to the West with a distaunce of about foure hundred and fiftie miles betweene them For in the altitude of the same Pole wherein the said Authour placeth those two Lakes lyeth also the kingdome of Congo and of Angola towards the West and and on the other side Eastward is the Empire of Monomotapa and the Kingdome of Sofala with a distaunce from sea to sea of twelue hundred miles Now within all this space as Signor Odoardo affirmed vnto me there is but one onely Lake to bee founde which lyeth in the confines of Angola and Monomotapa and contayneth in Diameter an hundred ninetie and fiue miles Of the Westerne side of this Lake the people of Angola do giue sufficient information and of the other side Eastwarde those of Sofala and Monomotapa So that there is a ful and perfect knowledge of this one Lake but of any other thereabouts there is no mention at all made And therefore it may well bee concluded that there are none other to be founde in that altitude of degrees True it is in deede that there are two Lakes but they are situate in places quite contrary to that which Ptolemie writeth For he as it hath beene told you placeth his Paralleles from West to East but these are situate from the South to the North as it were in a direct line with the distance of about foure thousand miles betweene them Some that dwell in those countries do holde an opinion that Nilus after it is issued out of the first Lake hideth it selfe vnder the grounde and afterwardes riseth againe but others doo deny that it is so Signor Odoardo did iustifie it to me that the true history and certainty of this matter is that Nilus doth not hide it selfe vnder the grounde but that it runneth through monstrous and desert valleyes without any setled channell and where no people inhabiteth and so they say it sinketh into the bottome of the earth From this first Lake in deed doth Nilus spring which lyeth in twelue degrees towardes the Pole Antarctike is compassed about like a vault with exceeding high mountaines the greatest whereof are called Cafates vpon the East and the hilles of Sal-Nitrum and the hilles of Siluer on another side and lastly with diuers other Mountaines on the thirde part This Riuer Nilus runneth for the space of 400. miles directly towardes the North and then entreth into another verye great Lake which the inhabitantes doo call a Sea It is much bigger then the first for it contayneth in breadth two hundred and twentie miles and lyeth vnder the line Equinoctiall Of this second Lake the Anzichi who are neere neighbours to Congo doo giue very certaine and perfect information for they trafficke into those partes And they report that in this Lake there is a people that sayleth in great shippes and can write and vseth number and weight and measure which they haue not in the partes of Congo that they builde their houses with stone and lime and that for their fashions and qualities they may bee compared with the Portingalles Wherevpon it may bee well gathered that the Empire of Prete-Gianni cannot bee farre from thence From this second Lake the riuer Nilus runneth forwardes to the Islande of Meroe for the space of seauen hundred miles and receyueth into it sundry other riuers The principall of them all is the riuer Coluez so called because it issueth out of a Lake of the same name and situate in the borders of Melinde After that Nilus is come to Meroe it deuideth it selfe into two braunches and so compasseth about a good high Territory which is called Meroe Vpon the right hand whereof towardes the East there runneth a Riuer named Abagni that springeth out of the Lake Bracina and crosseth ouer the Empire of Prete Gianni till you come to the said Islande and on the other side Westwarde there are diuers other Riuers among which Saraboe is one When Nilus hath thus receiued these riuers into it hath compassed the Islande with both his armes hee waxeth greater then he was before and meeteth againe in one channell and by Aethiopia which is called Aethiopia aboue Aegypt runneth to the Falles as they call them which lie in a very lowe valley that is very narrowe and straite and shutteth the riuer within a very little channell so that it falleth from aloft downewards with a most horrible noyse neere to the Isle of Syene And from thence watring all Aegypt it disgorgeth his streames into the Mediterranean sea which lyeth directly ouer against the Islande of Cyprus by two of his principall braunches the one called at this day the Mouth of Damiata on the East and the other the Mouth of Rossetto on the West And forasmuch as wee are nowe come to the very ende of this discourse concerning Nilus it will be very conuenient that wee touch in briefe the occasion of his encrease As we haue tolde you before the principall cause of the encrease of Nilus is the great quantity of waters that raine from heauen at such time as the spring beginneth here in these countries but there with them in winter which may be to speake generally about the beginning of April This water falleth not as the water falleth in these Regions of Europe but it falleth most aboundantly and commeth downe not in smal drops like our raine but is powred down as it were with pailes and buckets So that because it falleth with so great violence and in so great a quantity the earth cannot sucke it vp nor drink it in for the ground being ragged and somewhat bending downward the water scowreth away with an exceeding furie and running into the riuers causeth them to swell and to rise in a maruellous manner and so ouerflowe the countrey You must herewithall consider especially that they haue these continuall raines for the space of fiue whole Moones together that is to say in Aprill May Iune Iuly and August but principally in May Iune and Iuly for then are the waters in their greatest pride And herevpon it commeth to passe that the Countrey being full of mountaines and very high hilles as hath beene told you and consequently replenished with diuers brookes and rillets and Lakes they all ioyning and meeting together in the channelles of the greater Riuers doo make them so great and so large that they containe and carry more water then all the Riuers of the vniuersall worlde and the Lakes growe