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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16718	Enquiries touching the diuersity of languages, and religions through the cheife parts of the world. Written by Edw. Brerewood lately professor of astronomy in Gresham Colledge in London	Brerewood, Edward, 1565?-1613.; Brerewood, Robert, Sir, 1588-1654.	1614 (1614)	STC 3618; ESTC S106411	137,209	224

limitation of theirs to be vntrue yet neither can I yeeld to them who esteem it * Horat. Malaguz nel discor so de ● cinque massimi Signo●i greater then the vast dominions of the Emperours of Turkie or of Tartarie c Or to them that extend it from the one Tropique to the other and from the red sea almost to the west Ocean For first certaine it is that I may speake a little of the limits of this kingdome that it attaineth not to the redde sea Eastward neither within the straits of Babel mandel nor without for within those straits Boter 〈◊〉 pro●im cita●o along the Bay of Arabia there is a continuall ledge of mountaines knowne to bee inhabited with Moores betwixt that Bay and the dominion of Habassia So that only one Port there is along all that coast Somman dei regni Oriental apud Ramos vol 1. pag 324 Ercoco by name where those mountaines open to the Sea that at this present belongeth to it Neither without those Straits doth it any where approach to the Ocean All that coast as farre as Mozambique being well knowne to be inhabited with Arabians And as touching the west limits of Habassia I can not finde by any certaine history or relation vnskilfull men may rumour what they will and I know also that the common Charts represent it otherwise I cannot find I say that it stretcheth beyond the riuer Nilus so far commeth it short of the West Ocean For it is knowne that all the west bank of Nilus from the riuer of Zaire to the confines of Nubia Boter Rel●● p 1 lib. 3. ca. Loango A●●zichi is possessed by the Anzichi being an idolatrous and man-eating nation subiect to a great Prince of their own thus then it is with the bredth of the Empire of Habassia betwixt East and West And now to speake of the length of it lying north and South neither doth it approach northward on Nilus side further then the south end of the Isle of Meroe Meroe it selfe is inhabited by Mahumetans and the deadly enemies of the king of Habassia nor on the Sea side farther then about the port of Suachem And toward the south although the bounds of that kingdom be not perfectly known yet that it approacheth nothing neere the circle of Capricorne as hath bin supposed is most manifest because the great kingdomes of Moenhemage and Benomotapa and some others are situate betwixt Habassia and that circle But as neere as I am able to coniecture hauing made the best search that I can in the itineraries and relations that are extant of those parts the south limit of that Empire passeth not the south parallel of six or seuen degrees at the most where it confineth with Moenhemage So that to make a respectiue estimate of the largenesse of that dominion by comparing it with our knowne regions of Europe It seemeth equall to Germany and France and Spaine and Italie laid together Equall I say in dimension of ground but nothing neere equall in habitation or multitude of people which the distemperature of that climate and the drye barrennes of the ground in many regions of it wil not allow For which cause the torride parts of Afrique are by Piso in Strabo resembled to a Libbards skinne Strab. l. 2. the distance of whose spots represent the dispersednesse of habitations or townes in Afrique But if I should absolutely set downe the circuit of that whole dominion I esteeme the limitation of Pigafetta Pigafett de Regn. Cong l. 1. c. 10. nere about the truth namely that it hath in circūference 4000. miles about 1500. in length and about 600. in breadth beeing inclosed with Mahumetans on the north and east and with Idolaters on the West and South Such then as I haue declared is the condition of Christians in the continent of Afrique but the Inhabitants of the Isles along the west coast of Africk as namely Madera the Canaries the Isles of Cabo verde and of S. Thomas and some other of lesse importance are by the Portugals and Castilians instruction become Christian but on the East side of Afrique excepting only * Paul Venet. l. 3. c. 38. Zocotora there is no Christian Isle Euen such is the state of Christians in the firme land and the adiacent Isles of Afrique And it is not much better in Asia for excepting first the Empire of Russia and yet of it a great part is Idolatrous namely the region betweene the riuers of Pechora and Ob and some part of Permia secondly the regions of Circassia and Mengrelia lying along Moe●tis and the Euxine sea from Tanais Eastward as farre as the riuer Phasis Thirdly the prouince of Georgia and fourthly the mountaine Libanus in Syria and yet the last of these is of the Turkes dominion excepting these few I say there is not any region in all Asia where Christians liue seueral without mixture either of Mahumetans or of Pagās for although Vitriacus a man well experienced in some parts of the orient Iacob a Vitriaco Histor. Orient c. 77. as being Bishop of Acon and the Popes Legate in the East at what time Palestina and Syria were in the hands of Christians hath left registred that the Christians of the Easterlie parts of Asia exceeded in multitude the Christians of the Greek and Latine Churches yet in his time for he writ almost 400. yeares agoe Christianity began to decline and since his time it hath proceeded infinitely to decay in all those parts of Asia first by the inundation of the idolatrous Tartars who subdued all those regions and after by the intertaining of Mahumetanisme in many of them The time was indeed and but about 400. yeares agoe when the King of Tenduc whom the histories of those times name Presbyter Iohannes a Christian but a Nestorian Prince ruled farre and wide in the Northeast part of Asia as hauing vnder his dominion beside Tenduc which was his owne natiue and peculiar kingdome all the neighbouring prouinces which were at that time for a great part Christian but after that his Empire was brought to ruine and he subdued by Chingis a rebell of his owne dominion and the first founder of the Tartarian Empire which happened about the yeare 1190. the state of Christian Religion became in short time strangely altered in those parts Paul Venet. l. ● cap. 8. for I find in Marcus Paulus who liued within 50. yeares after Vitriacus and was a man of more experience in those parts then hee as hauing spent seuenteene yeares together in Tartarie partly in the Emperours Court and partly in trauailing ouer those Regions about the Emperours affaires that except the Prouince of Tenduc which as I saide was the kingdome of Presbyter Iohns residence for it was the Prince of that kingdōe Scaliger de En●●●ndat tempor l 7. Annot in comput Aethiop which is rightly vsually For Scaligers imagination that it was the King of the Habassines