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A70735	Africa being an accurate description of the regions of Ægypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, Æthiopia and the Abyssines : with all the adjacent islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern or Oriental Sea, belonging thereunto : with the several denominations fo their coasts, harbors, creeks, rivers, lakes, cities, towns, castles, and villages, their customs, modes and manners, languages, religions and inexhaustible treasure : with their governments and policy, variety of trade and barter : and also of their wonderful plants, beasts, birds and serpents : collected and translated from most authentick authors and augmented with later observations : illustrated with notes and adorn'd with peculiar maps and proper sculptures / by John Ogilby, Esq. ...	Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.	1670 (1670)	Wing O163; Wing D241; ESTC R22824	857,918	802

of death but there must continue ten days worshipping the Moon within which time if it doth not Rain they cut off his Hand Before the beginning of Lent all the most Eminent assemble and offer Sacrifice to the Moon of an hundred Goats and Kids Heads They observe Lent like the Christians but they begin it with the New Moon in April and keep the Solemnity sixty days during which time they eat no Milk Butter Flesh nor Fish but onely Herbs and Dates or Rice and Honey which they buy in the Cities of the Arabians They are so zealous Observers of this Fast that if they find any to have broken it for the first time they cut off two Fingers of his Right-hand the second time the whole Hand and the third time the Arm. Every Temple of which there are many hath a Caciz call'd by them Hodamo that is a Governor or Judge in Church-matters but holds the Office but one Year which he enters upon by receiving a Staff the Badge of his Authority and wearing always a Cross of a Span and half long about him which he may not part with upon pain of the loss of his Hand In the Temples whereinto at the Rising and Setting of the Moon they enter they use a Stick of two or three Spans long upon which with another Stick they give certain Strokes thrice in the Day and thrice in the Night held by them for a Work of great Holiness Afterwards they go in Procession three times round about the Church-yard turning thrice after every Circuit then they take an Iron Pan made in form of a plain deep Scale hanging upon three Chains into which they put Splinters of sweet Wood and hold the Bason over the Fire then they first perfume the Altar thrice afterwards the Temple Doors and say with a loud voice some Prayers in the Temple and in the Church-yard requesting of the Moon to do good to them onely and no other People At the performance of this Solemnity the Hodamo holdeth upon the Altar a lighted Candle made of Butter for they have none of Wax or Tallow and therefore they have in their Temples Dishes of Butter wherewith they also every day anoint the Cross and other Sticks lying upon the Altar They go upon a certain day of the year with the greatest Cross in Procession round about the Temple and cause it to be carry'd by one chosen out of the whole Assembly whose Fingers after the ending of the Procession they chop off and present him with a little Stick with certain marks upon it for a token that he should be prejudic'd by no body whereupon thenceforth he is held in much greater honor than others They follow in many Churches the Ceremonies and Customs of Nestorius because they were for a long time Govern'd by Ecclesiastical Rulers which came from Babylon They have no set-Day of the Week to go into their Temples but assemble on the Procession-days or when any new occasion calls them They are Circumcis'd like the Moors and if they know any one that is not Circumcis'd they cut off his Fingers for no Uncircumcis'd may enter into their Temples yea the very Women themselves clap their hands at their Husbands if they be not Circumcis'd They bear a great hatred against all Christians nevertheless some are of opinion that they have suck'd in much of the Heresie of the Jacobites and that formerly many were Converted by Francis Xavier According to the Observations of Sir Thomas Roe Ambassador from the King of England to Persia there were in the Year Sixteen hundred and fifteen upon this Island four sorts of People that is Arabians not Natives but Shipt over thither together with many others by order of the King of Kaxem when they subdu'd it These never appear before the Sultan without kissing his Hand The second sort are a kind of Slaves who labor continually in his service and prepare and dress the Aloes The third are Beduins the most antient Inhabitants against whom a long time the King of Socotora made War They live in great numbers upon the Mountains and are at this day left in Peace upon promise to shew their Obedience and let their Children be instructed in the Doctrine of Mahomet The fourth being indeed the right Proprietors of the Countrey are a gross Body'd and miserable People which have no constant abode in the night lying in the Woods and going always stark naked they live by Roots hold no converse with others and lead a life almost like Beasts Trogloditica or New Arabia THe Modern Geographers as Maginus and others name the Countrey or Space of Land lying between the Nile and the Red-Sea properly New Arabia but the Inhabitants according to Castaldus call it Sirfi The Antients nam'd it Trogloditica and Ptolomy The Countrey of the Arabians and Egyptians The Inhabitants were by the Grecians call'd Ichthiophagi that is Fish-eaters by Eustathius Erembers by Diodorus Molgers and Bolgers and in the holy Scripture according to the testimony of Arias Montanus they are call'd Ghanamim and by Pliny Therotho's that is to say Hunters for their swiftness and dexterity in Hunting In the bounding of this Countrey great diversity arises amongst Geographers Ptolomy extends Trogloditick Arabia from the City Suez by the Red-Sea three or according to Peter de la Valla scarce a days Journey and a half from Cairo to Mount Elephas at this day call'd Felte so that he compriseth under it the Sea-Coast of the Kingdoms of Barnagas and Adel. Some extend the Limits in the South to the Territory of Brava the Kingdom of Magadoxo and the River Quilanzi yet make it begin at the forenam'd Suez but a third sort narrow it to the Cape of Guardafuy and some to the Island Mazua in the Red-Sea The chiefest Places as you go from North to South near Suez according to Maginus are these though Belloon gives them to the Nether-Egypt The Haven and Point of Pharos where they say the Children of Israel went over the Red-Sea on dry ground the Seven Wells call'd Sette Pozzi in Italian the Haven of Alkosser or Chessir Sanutus on the other side compriseth a part of this New Arabia viz. all the aforesaid Places from Suez to Chessir under Egypt wherein we have follow'd those who have formerly described Egypt They call the Tract of Land from Chessir to the Sea lying over against the Haven of Suaquena Batrazan In eighteen Degrees and forty Minutes lieth the Haven of Suaquem in the Territory of Canphila in a Hollow of the Sea close by the People call'd Nubiers and Bello's The whole Coast of this Countrey lieth clogged with high rough and unpassable Mountains so set back to back that no access can be had to the Inland Countreys of Ethiopia and the Abyssines but through the Haven of Ercocco and Suachem and that so troublesom that Travellers can scarce go above three or four English miles in a day The Inhabitants at this day are made up of a mixture

ENGLISH ATLAS Tome the First AFRICA BEING AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF THE REGIONS OF Aegypt Barbary Lybia and Billedulgerid The LAND of Negroes Guinee Aethiopia and the Abyssines With all the Adjacent Islands either in the Mediterranean Atlantick Southern or Oriental Sea belonging thereunto With the several Denominations of their Coasts Harbors Creeks Rivers Lakes Cities Towns Castles and Villages THEIR Customs Modes and Manners Languages Religions and Inexhaustible Treasure With their Governments and Policy variety of Trade and Barter And also of their Wonderful Plants Beasts Birds and Serpents Collected and Translated from most Authentick Authors And Augmented with later Observations Illustrated with Notes and Adorn'd with peculiar Maps and proper Sculptures By JOHN OGILBY Esq Master of His Majesties REVELS in the Kingdom of IRELAND LONDON Printed by Tho. Johnson for the Author and are to be had at his House in White Fryers M.DC.LXX CHARLES R. CHARLES by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To all Our loving Subjects of what Degree Condition or Quality soever within Our Kingdoms and Dominions Greeting Whereas upon the Humble Request of Our Trusty and Well-beloved Servant John Ogilby Esq We were graciously pleased by Our Warrant of the 25th of May in the Seventeenth Year of Our Reign to grant him the Sole Priviledge and Immunity of Printing in Fair Volumns adorn'd with Sculptures Virgil Translated Homers Iliads Aesop Paraphras'd and Our Entertainment in Passing through Our City of London and Coronation together with Homers Odysses and his fore-mention'd Aesop with his Additions and Annotations in Folio with a Prohibition That none should Print or Re-print the same in any Volumns without the Consent and Approbation of him the said John Ogilby his Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns within the Term of Fifteen Years next ensuing the Date of Our said Warrant And whereas by one other Warrant of the 20th of March in the Nineteenth Year of Our Reign We were in like manner graciously pleas'd to grant him the said John Ogilby the sole Priviledge of Printing Homers Works in the Original adorn'd with Sculptures a Second Collection of Aesops Fables Paraphras'd and adorn'd with Sculptures The Embassy of the Netherland East-India-Company to the Emperor of China with Sculptures and an Octavo Virgil in English without Sculptures heretofore by him Printed with like Prohibition That none should Print or Re-print the same in any Volumns without the Consent and Approbation of him the said John Ogilby his Heirs Executors and Assigns within the Term of Fifteen Years next ensuing the Date of Our said Warrant And whereas the said John Ogilby hath humbly besought Vs to grant him further License and Authority to have the sole Priviledge of Printing a Description of the whole VVorld viz. Africa America Asia and Europe in several Volumns adorn'd with Sculptures VVe taking it into Our Princely Consideration and for his farther Encouragement have thought fit to grant and we do hereby give and grant him the sole Priviledge of Printing the said Books last-mentioned And VVe do by these Presents straitly charge prohibit and forbid all our Loving Subjects to Print or Re-print the said Books in any Volumns or any of them or to Copy or Counterfeit any the Sculptures or Ingravements therein within the Term of Fifteen Years next ensuing the Date of these Presents without the Consent and Approbation of the said John Ogilby his Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns as they and every of them so offending will answer the contrary at their utmost Peril VVhereof the VVardens and Company of Stationers of Our City of London are to take particular notice that due Obedience be given to this Our Royal Command Given under Our Signet and Sign-Manual at Our Court at VVhitehall the first day of November 1669. in the One and twentieth Year of Our Reign By His Majesties Command J. TREVOR To the High and Mighty MONARCH CHARLES II. Of England Scotland France and Ireland KING Defender of the Faith c. SIR SInce it pleased Divine Providence by Your Majesties sole Conduct and Direction to Compose all Foreign Differences setling at last Your weary People Harrased with Fire and Pestilence under a Necessary and Honourable Peace The Effects of which soon Chearing up Your Loyal Subjects they laying Arms aside straight betook themselves to the several Improvements of Arts and Sciences each striving to outvie the other in what seemed most Conducible to the Restauration of the former Wealth Splendor and Reputation of these Your Majesties Kingdoms Renown'd and Famous through the World But amongst these Busie Preparations no Work appears more Perspicuous than that Stupendious Miracle the Raising from a Confused Heap of Ruines sooner than some believ'd they could remove the Rubbish Your Imperial City already looking down though Private Houses upon former Publick Structures hereafter to be the Business of Foreign Nations to See and Wonder at I also Dread Soveraign feeling a Spring of Youthful Vigour warming my Veins with fresh Hopes of better Times have undertaken according to my Mean Abilities no small Business a Work of Time requiring some Years to Publish being May it please Your Majesty a New Model of the Vniverse an English Atlas or the setting forth in our Native Dress and Modern Language an Accurate Description of all the Kingdoms and Dominions in the Four Regions thereof Since such and so great an Off-spring cannot be Born in a day nor see the light of Publication at once being several and distinct Volumns this my first Issue Most Gracious Sir being Africa Compleat in the Name of the Rest yet Vnfinish'd I humbly Dedicate and Tender to Your most Serene Majesty as an Earnest and Representative of the whole Work In which Dread Sir You may behold amidst a Gallaxy of Southern Constellations or the numerous Flourishing Cities and Seats of that famous Region Your own Bright Star none of the smallest Magnitude Your Metropolis Your Royal City Tangier which Seated on the Skirts of the Atlantick keeps the Keys both of the Ocean and In-Land Sea whose unparallell'd Scituation Temperature of Air and Fertility of Soil may well make the Story True if Romance that an antient Emperor resolv'd to fix there his Imperial Seat to be his Terrestrial Paradice Invironing with Walls of Brass a Gold and Silver City Thus Prostrating at Your Sacred Feet that which if Your Majesty be pleased to receive with a Smile Your Subjects through Your Brittish Monarchy not onely Ambitious in obeying Your Commands but ready to follow in what they may Your Royal Example will give the Work also a Civil Reception Whilest I Dread Soveraign to clear all difficulties am busie exploding Old Tales Fictions and Hear-says of the Antients Collecting and Translating better and more Modern Authority especially Eye-witnesses our late Sea Voyagers that I might not weary Your Sacred Ears with any thing if possible but undoubted Truth May Your Majesty though Your Claim be Just and Your Sword

cold Next Adel to the side of Mombaza you arrive at Bahali or Bali Da●ali or Bali then to that of Oecie shooting inwardly to the Main-Land then to Ario or Aro limited in the North by Dunkala and in the West by the Territory of Oifate Fategar hath in the North the River Aoaxe in the West Fategar the Kingdom of Oge and in the South the Territory of Gamat Sanutus places at the utmost borders hereof Adel and adds also Xaoa In this Kingdom on the Borders of Adel stands the Ague-Mountain near a place by the people of Europe call'd The Market because the Inhabitants of both Realms come thither to Trade Then you come to the Mountain of the Lake whose sides boast the Ornament of many Churches and Cloysters and the top shews a Lake three miles in circumference Zengero comes next and after that Rozenagus Zengero from thence travelling Northerly into the Countrey you come to Roxa or Boxa bordering upon Zingero and Eastwards on Goiame Close to Narea lieth Zeth or Zesta deep into the Countrey upon which the Kingdom of Konche borders as that upon Mahaola Faskulon takes place between two Branches of the Nyle Eastward of Goiame and Dambea and Southward of Bizamo Jarrik reckons from Dambea to Faskulon five days journey Thus we have handed you through the Kingdoms we will now set out the Provinces remaining and so proceed to other matter The Territory of Magaza the Northern part of this Kingdom Territories scituate between the River Mareb and Takasa borders towards the North upon Nengini and in the West touches Fungi or Bugihe Seguede the next borders North-East upon Magaza North with Fungie West at Olkait and South at Semen and Salait Olkait conterminates in the East Sequede in the North Fungie in the West Dambea and in the South Salait Salait hath for limits to the North the Territory of Seguede in the West that of Seinen and the Kingdom of Dambea and in the South Abargale Cenen or Semnen so call'd by Balthazar Tellez in stead of Ximench or Ximen but by Sanutus Terra di Giudei Jewen-Land and by the Abyssines themselves Xionenche borders in the North at Seguede in the East at Salait Sanutus saith this Jews Countrey lieth Inclos'd between Mountains and Wildernesses which in the East spread towards the Nyle and Abyssine and South to the Equinoctial from whence they shoot to Congo in the West are unknown Mountains and Wildernesses towards Benin and in the North a ridge of great Hills over-topping the edges of Dauma and Medra Abargale stands bounded in the North by Salait in the East by the River Takara and in the South by the Territory of Salaoa The limits of Salaoa are in the North at Abargale in the East at the foremention'd River Takaze in the South Bagameder and in the West Dambea Ozeka hath the neighborhood of Amaza North Marabett East Upper-Xaoa South and in the West Goiame Doba lieth in the middle of Bagameder all the other Southern Territories formerly belonging to Abyssine the Gala's possess as the Turks do the Eastern Countreys towards the Red-Sea Most Geographers have plac'd in Abyssine two Arms of the Nyle The Island Me●●e anciently by Ptolomy nam'd Astapus and Astaboras The first of these two at present Niger calleth Abani Barros Abansi and Vossius Mareb The other being Takaze or Takassen lies in fifteen Degrees and twenty Minutes Northern Latitude and fifteen days Sail from Siena wherein lies the Island Meroe often remembred by ancient Greek and Latin Writers Diodorus thinks it took that Name from Meroe the Mother of Cambyses King of Persia But Strabo from his Sister which died there The Inhabitants denominate it Naulebahe that is The Mother of Good Havens and Marmol Neuba Some differ from all before and will have it nam'd in the Countrey Idiom sometimes Saba then Bed Amara and anon Tevet Many others intitle it Gueguere which Jovius denies maintaining Gueguere to be the same with Syene Sanutus reckons the length of this Island to be three hundred and fifty Italian Miles or seventy Dutch Miles But Jovius makes it bigger than England though without any Reason and contrary to the Vogue of all Ages and Authors Some Modern Writers seem to make the Kingdom of Goiame Balthazar Tellez almost surrounded by a Branch of the Nyle to be this Island Meroe but Vossius contradicts both the first and last Opinions affirming That the Ancients never had any true knowledge of this Island but have made one in Imagination where never was any contrary to Strabo and many others The City Meroe situate by Ptolomy at the North end of the Island Pliny and others set seventy thousand Paces more to the South and Vossius thinks that 't is the same at this day call'd Beroa or Baroa the Head-City of Barnagas and adds moreover That the Netherlanders have greatly mistaken in setting it so far from the Red-Sea an Error caus'd as he imagines by the tedious uncouthness of the Way For the whole Coast lies so full of craggy and high Mountains as makes it almost unpassable and their Backs so chain'd together that you have no way to it but by the Haven of Ercocco and Suachem and that so troublesom that Travellers can scarce ride above three or four thousand Paces in one day And therefore saith he it is no wonder Ancient Geographers who in a few known Countreys were necessitated to take the Distance of Places by the Days-Journey should extend the Countrey between Meroe and the Red-Sea so far This Empire of the Abyssines may justly claim the advantage of divers good Rivers especially the middlemost and principal Channel of the Nyle Rivers and other fertilizing Branches thereof as Mareb or Morabo Tacaze Anquet and Malegh The River Mareb takes its Rise in the Kingdom of Tigre The River Mareb two small Miles from Baroa on the West-side and runneth on to the South passing into the dry Countrey of the Caffers where one Branch burying it self under ground for a while and afterwards re-appearing with an inverted Course turns back towards its Head till at last it shoots in a direct Line to the Kingdom of Denghini and so at last unites with the River Tacaze Tacaze which Mercator according to Tellez holds to be the Assabaras mention'd by Ptolomy hath its Head-Fountain in the Borders of Angote The River Tacaze in the Mountains of Axgua near Bagameder from three Head-springs about a stones cast one from another whose Waters conjoyn'd make this River It takes a Course a days Journey to the West between the Precinct of Dagana and Hoaga running from thence beyond the Kingdom of Tigre then cuts through the Territory of Sire having on the East-side Fruitful and Tilled Grounds and on the West the Wilderness or Desart of Oldeba formerly boasting many Cloysters like Egyptian Thebes from thence taking a view of Holcait it falls through the Caffers Countrey with a great contribution of Water