other Officers and their servants weeping and lamenting who held up their hands to the people that looked upon them thereby teaching the young Children to do the like and to ask mercy and grace at the peoples hands There were three pretty little Children two sons and a Daughter amongst them who by reason of their tender years lacked understanding which made them poor souls insensible of their present misery and that moved the people so much the more to pitty them seeing the poor little infants that knew not the change of their hard hap so that through compassion to them they had almost let the Father pass without looking upon him yea many of the peoples hearts did so melt for pitty that the tears ran down their cheeks till they were past and gone a good way out of sight King Perseus the Father followed after his Children and their train Hee was cloathed in a black gown with a pair of slippers on his feet after his Country manner Hee shewed by his countenance his troubled mind being opprest with sorrow for his most miserable estate and condition Hee was followed with his kinsfolk his familiar friends his officers and houshold servants their faces being disfigured with blubbering shewing to the world by their lamentable tears and sorrowful eyes cast upon their unfortunate Master how much they sorrowed and bewailed his most hard and woful estate whilest they made little account of their own misery After all these there followed four hundred Princely Crowns of gold which the Cities and Towns of Greece had purposely sent by their Ambassadors unto Aemylius to honour his victory And last of all came Aemylius himself in his Triumphant Chariot which was passing sumptuously set forth and adorned This was a gallant sight to behold and yet the person himself was worth looking on without all that great pomp and magnificence for hee was cloathed in a purple gown curiously branched with gold carrying in his right hand a bough of Lawrel as all his Army did the like the which being divided by bands and companies followed the Triumphant Chariot of their Captain some of the souldiers singing songs of victory according to the usual manner of the Romans in the like cases mingleing them with merry and pleasant toyes as glorying and rejoycing in their General others of them sang songs of Triumph in the honour and praise of Aemylius his noble conquests and victorys so that hee was openly praised blessed and honoured of all and neither hated nor envied of any that were good and honest Plut. in vita ejus Rome was so populous when Paulus Aemylius was Censor that being mustered by him they were found to bee three hundred thirty seven thousand four hundred fifty and two men The manner of Pompey's third Triumph For the statelinesse and magnificence of this Triumph though Pompey had two dayes to shew it in yet were there many things which for want of time were not seen even so many as would have served to have set forth another Triumph In the first place there were Tables carryed whereon were written the names and titles of all the people and Nations which hee had conquered and for which hee triumphed as the Kingdomes of Pontus Armenia Cappadocia Paphlagonia Media Colchis Iberia Albania Syria Cilicia and Mesopotamia as also the people that dwell about Phaenicia Palaestine Judaea and Arabia and all the Pirates which hee had overcome both by Sea and Land in all parts of the world In all these Countries hee had taken a thousand Castles almost nine hundred Cities and walled Towns Of Pirates ships eight hundred Hee had replenished again with people nine and thirty desolate Towns that were left without Inhabitants In these Tables was further declared that before these conquests the revenues of the Common-wealth of Rome were but five thousand Myriads per annum but now Pompey had made them eight thousand and five hundred Myriads per annum and that hee had brought now for the Treasury in ready gold and silver Plate and Jewels the value of twenty thousand Talents besides that which hee had distributed amongst his souldiers of which hee that had least for his share had one thousand five hundred Drachma's The prisoners that were led in this Triumph besides the Captains of the Pirates were the son of Tygranes King of Armenia with his wife and daughter The wife of King Tygranes himself called Zosime Aristobulus King of Judaea Mithridates sister with her five sons and some Ladies of Scythia The hostages also of the Iberians and Albanians and of the Kings of the Commagenians beside many other things too large to recite But that which made his honour the greatest and whereunto never any of the Roman Consuls attained was that in his three Triumphs hee triumphed over the three parts of the world In his first over Africk in his second over Europe and now in this third over Asia which was almost all the then known world and all this before hee was forty years old Plut. In vita ejus A Description of the City of Venice with her Rarities which was begun to bee built Anno Christi 421. upon the 25th of March and upon seventy and two Islands This Wonder of Cities is seated in the bosome or betwixt the Armes of the Adriatick Sea It is built upon four thousand Islands and is as it were chained together by four thousand Bridges The occasion which made these watry Isles a mansion for men was when that Northern Deluge of Goths Vandals Huns and Longobards did overflow all Italy the people of all sorts fled to these lakes to avoid the land torrent that was like to swallow them up and finding the Air to bee gentle and fit for habitation and propagation they pitched their Tents upon these Isles and associated them by conjoyning Bridges There are seventy two Isles that support Venice and the nearest part of the Continent is five miles distant There are banks and ditches cast up to preserve her from the impetuousnesse of the waves of the Sea extending in length above six miles Shee is above eight miles in circuit Through the banks in seven places there are passages broken for boats but not for bigger vessels Besides there be above twenty thousand Gondolaes or Boats which ply up and down perpetually in each of which are two rowers at least so that upon occasion shee can suddenly make an Army of above fifty thousand Gondoliers Shee hath for her Motto Nec fluctu nec flatu movetur Nor winds nor waves can stir her Her Fabriques publick and private are extraordinary specious and sumptuous and her streets so neat and evenly paved that in the depth of winter a man may walk up and down in a pair of Sattin Pan-tables and Crimson Silk stockings and not bee dirtied There are above two hundred Palaces fit to receive any Prince with his ordinary retinue Her situation is so rare every street almost having an arm of the Sea running thorow it
against the Arians Nicomedia sometimes the seat of the Emperors Apamia or Bursa nigh to Mount Olympus where the first Ottamans had their Seat-Royal and all of that race except the Great Turks themselves are still there buried Chalcedon builded seventeen years before Biâ—amium and the builders thereof are said to bee blinde which neglected that better seat Here was held a famous Council of six hundred and thirty Bishops against the Heresie of Eutiches Paphlagonia hath on the North Pontus on the East the River Halis on the South Phrygia and Galacia and on the West Bithynia Vetruvius tells us of a â—ountain here that seems to bee mixed with wine that makes drunken such as drink freely thereof Asia properly so called now Sarcum is bounded on the West with part of Propontis and Hellespont the Aegean Icarian and Myrtoan Seas On the South with the Rhodian Sea Lycia and Pamphilia On the East with Galacia and on the North with Pontus Bythinia and part of Propontis In which space are contained Phrygia Caria and both Mysia's Aeolis Jonia Doris and Lydia Phrygia is divided into the greater and the less called also Hellespontiaca and Troas The greater lyeth Eastward and is so called from the River Phryx which parts it from Caria Here stood Midaium the Royal Seat of Mydas and Apamia the Phrygian Metropolis Here also upon the River Sangarius stood Gordie where was the Gordian knot which when Alexander could not untie hee cut it in sunder with his sword In the lesser Phrygia stood the eye of Asia and Star of the East called Ilium or Troy destroyed by the Grecians after ten years siege the ruines whereof appear at this day the walls and decayed buildings entertaining the beholder with a kinde of majesty the walls were of a large circuit of great spongy black and hard stones cut foursquare the ruines of the Turrets on the walls are yet to be seen also great marble Tombs of ancient workmanship made Chest-fashion and their covers whole are yet to be seen without the walls Many great Cisterns made to receive rain water are yet whole The soil about it is dry and barren The Rivers Xanthus and Simois so much famoused are small Rivers which in Summer are quite dry Nunc seges est ubi Troja fuit Cyzicus was a City of Mysia wherein was a famous Temple whose Pillars were four cubits thick and fifty cubits high each of one stone the whole building was made of polished stone and each stone was joyned to other with a line of gold The Image of Jupiter within was made of Ivory crowned with a marble Apollo which City and Temple were swallowed up in an Earthquake and probably for their abominable Idolatry The like befel Philadelphia one of the seven Churches to which St. John wrote another City of Mysia and the like to Magnesia in the same Region A little hence standeth Abydus and over against it on Europe side was Sestus one of the Guards of the Turkish Empire he having built Castles there which are well furnished and the Straits not being above seven Furlongs over Here Xerxes joyned Asia to Europe by a Bridge for the transportation of his huge Army into Greece In Mysia also was that famous Pine-tree that was four and twenty foot in compass and growing intire for seventy foot from the root was then divided into three Arms equidistant which afterwards gathered themselves close into one top two hundred foot high Jonia is situated on the Icarian Seas over against the Isle of Chios wherein were ten principal Cities Miletus Myus Priene Ephesus Colophon Lebedus Teos Clazomenae Phocaea and Erythraea The Temple of Diana Described The Temple of Diana at Ephesus was one of the Worlds Wonders two hundred and twenty years were spent in the building of it It was built upon a Marish to prevent hurt by Earthquakes which were very common in those parts the first foundation was laid upon Coals the second upon Wooll It was four hundred twenty and five foot long and two hundred and twenty broad there were in it one hundred twenty and seven Pillars of Marble sixty foot in height and thirty six of them curiously wrought and engraven the works of so many Kings The doors of the Temple were of Cypress which after four hundred years were as fresh as if they had been new made the roof was of Cedar The Image which superstition supposed to have come down from Jupiter was made by one Canesia some say of Ebonie others of the Vine which had many holes made and filled with Spikenard the moisture whereof closed up the rifts It was inriched and adorned with gifts beyond value It was contrived by Ctesiphon and was seven times fired the last whereof was by Erostratus who did it to get himself a name Herodo Doris was almost surrounded with the Sea wherein was Gnidus a City famous for the Marble Image of Venus and Halycarnassus famous for Herodotus and Dionysius the Historians and for Mausolus whose Sepulchre erected by Artimesia his wife and sister was accounted one of the seven Wonders of the World Lycia is washed by the Sea for the space of two hundred miles In it Mount Taurus ariseth hence stretching it self Eastward under divers appellations to the Indian Sea Pamphilia beareth Eastward from Lycia and now together with Cilicia is by the Turks called Caramania Armenia minor which is divided from the greater now Turcomania by the River Euphrates on the East A more full description of the Countries in Asia major The Land of Canaan Described It was first called Canaan after that the posterity of Canaan the son of Cham had possessed it when Moses and Joshua had conquered it it was called the Land of Israel After the Babylonish Captivity it was called the Land of Judaea From the Philistines which inhabited the Sea-coasts it was called the Land of Palestine and by Christians since the Holy Land Adricomius which hath best described it makes it to bound Eastward on Syria and Arabia Southward on the Desart of Paran and Egypt Northward on Mount Libanus and Westward on the Sea From Dan to Bersheba its about a hundred and sixty Italian miles in length and sixty in breadth No Country in the world had so many Cities in so little a compass as this once had The Royal Cities in each Tribe were these In Aser Acsaph besides Sidon and Tyrus In Benjamin Bethel Gaaba Jerusalem and Jerico In Dan â—achish besides Eckron and Gath In Ephraim Gazer Samaria Saron and Tapua In Gad Rabba In Isachar Aphec In Juda Arad Beâ—eck Eglon Hebron Libna Mackeda Odolla Taphua In Manasse Dor Gilgal Jezreel Megiddo Taanac and Thirza In the other part of Manasse Astaroth Edri Geshur Machathi Soba Teman and Damascus In Nepthali Aser Kedes and Hemath In Ruben Heshbon Madian and Petra In Simeon Debir and Gerar In Zebulon Jeconan and Shimron Jordan is the chiefest River which at last looseth it self in the Lake Asphaltites but before that it makes many fruitful
of them Mahometans They have certain Idol puppets made of Silk or other stuff in the likenesse of a man which they fasten to the door of their walking houses to keep them in safety besides they have the Image of their great Cham of an huge bignesse which they erect at every stage when they march and every one as he passeth by must bow down to it they are much given to witchcraft and sorcery They are divided into Hoords over each of which is a Duke who are bound when the Emperor sends for them to attend him with such a number of Souldiers every one having two horses one to ride on and the other to kill when his turn comes to have his horse eaten for their chief food is horseflesh which they eat without any bread They keep also great heards of Kine and black sheep rather for their skins and milk which they carry with them in great bottles then for their flesh which they say is not so strengthning as horse-flesh they drink milk and bloud mingled together Sometimes as they travel they let their horses blood and drink it warm They have no Towns but walking houses built upon wheeles like Shepheards Cottages these they draw with them and drive their cattel before them and when they stay they plant their Cart-houses very orderly in rank so making the form of streets and of a large Town the Emperor himself hath no other City but such as these In the spring they move with their Cattel Northward grazing up all before them and then return Southward again where they remain all the winter Towards the Caspian sea and on the frontiers of Russia they have a goodly Country but marred for want of Tillage They use no money and prefer brass and Steel before all other mettals They have broad and flat visages much tanned have fierce and cruel looks thin hair on their upper lips they are light and nimble they have short legs as if they were made for horsemen their speech is sudden and loud speaking out of a deep hollow throat their singing is very untunable The Circasses that border upon Lituania are more civil than the rest applying themselves to the fashions of the Polonians The Nagay Tartars lye Eastward and are far more savage and cruel The most rude and barbarous are the Morduit-Tartars that worship for god the first living thing they meet in the morning and swear by it all the day after when his friend dyes hee kills his best horse and carries his hide upon a long pole before the Corps to the place of buriall that so his friend may have a good horse to carry him to heaven they are void of learning and without written Laws only some rules they hold by tradition as to obey their Emperor and Governors none to possesse any land but the whole Countrey to bee common not to use daintiness in diet c. This great Country is bounded on the East with the Eastern Ocean On the West with Russia and Moldovia On the North with the Sythick or frozen Sea and on the South with Mare Caspium the Hill Taurus and the wall of China It s in length from East to West five thousand four hundred miles and in breadth from North to South three thousand and six hundred miles It was formerly called Scythia It hath been so fruitfull of people that it was called Vagina gentium et officina generis humani the mother of all inundations From hence indeed Huns Herules Franks Bulgarians Circassians Sueves Burgundians Turks Tartarians Dutch Cimbers Normans Almaines Ostrogothes Tigurines Lombards Vandals Visigothes Have swarm'd like Locusts round about this Ball. And spoil'd the fairest Provinces of all The Island of Cyprus Described In the Mediterranean Sea there are only two Islands belonging to Asia Cyprus and Rhodes The Island of Cyprus Described Cyprus is seated in the Sea of Syria and is in compasse five hundred and fifty miles It s in length from East to West two hundred miles In breadth but sixty five miles It s about sixty miles distant from Cilicia and one hundred from the main land of Syria In summer it s very hot the greatest supply of water is from the Clouds So that in Constantines time there being a great and long drought the Island was almost unpeopled for thirty six years together Ordinarily it s very fruitfull and so stored with Commodities that without the help of other Countrys its able to build a ship from the keel to the top-sail and to furnish it to Sea with all things necessary either for a voyage or Sea-fight It yeilds plenty of wine Oile Corn Sugar Honey Wool Cotton Turpentine Allum and Verdegreece As also all sorts of Mettals Salt Grograms and other Commodities whence it was called Macaria or the blessed Island There are abundance of Cyprus Trees growing in it The Inhabitants are warlike strong and nimble civil Hospitable and friendly to strangers The Jews in Trajans time slew in this Island two hundred and forty thousand living souls whereupon ever since they suffer no Jew to come amongst them The Island is divided into eleven Provinces the chief Rivers are Pedeus and Tenus The chief Cities are Paphos once famous for the Temple of Venus Famagusta on the South Sea Nicosia almost in the center of the Countrey Amathus Ceraunia now called Cerines And Arsione now Lescare It s now under the Turks who took it from the Venetians Anno Christi One thousand five hundred threescore and ten The Island of Rhodes Described Rhodes is situated in the Carpathian Sea over against Caria in the lesser Asia It s in circuit one hundred and twenty miles The chief City is of the same name where stood that huge Colossus of Brasse in the Image of a man fourscore cubits high whose little finger was as big as an ordinary man it was the work of twelve years made by Chares of Lindum The Inhabitants of this I le were always good Seamen Anno Christi 1308. the Knights of St. John in Hierusalem being driven out of Asia by the Saracens seized upon this Island and were always troublesome neighbours to the Turks till the year 1522. at which time Solyman the Magnificent wrested it from them The forenamed City of Rhodes stands on the East part of the Island at the bottome of a hill and on the shore of the Sea having a safe and fair Haven it hath also two walls for defence thirteen high towers five bulwarks besides sconces and outworks It s inhabited only by Turks and Jews for though the Christians are suffered to trade freely all day yet at night upon pain of death they must leave it The Rhodian Colossus more fully Described In the Isle of Rhodes stood one of the worlds seven wonders which was a huge Colossus made of Brasse in the form of a man standing with his two leggs striding over an haven under which ships with their Masts and Sails might passe It was fourscore cubits high with all the
and inriched more by trade from China seventy of these Islands are subjects or friends to the Spaniards their intestine divisions making an easy way to the Spanish Conquest They worshiped the Sun and Moon Now they have amongst them many Monasteries of Friers and Jesuites But the wicked lives of the Spaniards makes the Inhabitants abhor their Religion They carve and cut their skins in sundry fashions and devises all over their body The Island of Mauritius described The Island of Mauritius lies within the torrid Zone about one hundred Leagues from Madegascar It abounds with all good things requisite for mans use The land is high and mountainous the shape somewhat round in circuit about one hundred miles every where sweet and flourishing having an healthful air and the blooming fragrant trees abating the heat of the Sun besides the gentle Breezes moderating the weather There are delicious Rivers which make the Earth fruitful Infinite store of lofty spreading trees green all the year their boughs being never unapparrelled of their Summer livery The ground is ever spread with natures choicest Tapestry the mirthful Sun ever re-inforcing a continued vigor and activity Of the trees some are good for timber others for food all for use Here is store of Box and of Ebony of all sorts black white red and yellow the tree is high small and streight and the wood of such esteem that many ships come yearly to it to load with Ebony besides which there are Coquo trees Pines Ashes Cypresses c. As also store of rare fruits birds and fowl Hawks of all kinds Bats as big as Gos-hawks Passo-Flemingos Herons Geese and many others good in their flesh and excellent in their feathers Fish there are plenty as the Cow-fish Dolphins Abicores Cavalloes VVhale Porpice Grampasse Mullet Bream Trout Tench Soles Flounders Tortoises Eeles Sharks Pikes Crabs Lobsters Oysters Cuttle-fish Rock-fish and other strange fishes some like Hedg-hogs some like Cats others with bristles c. This Isle also affords Goats Hogs Beeves and land Tortoises so big that two men may sit on one of them and shee will go away with them Africa described in General Africa is divided on the North from Europe by the Mediterranean Sea On the South it runs on a point to the Cape of Good Hope and is bounded with the vast Ocean called there the Aethiopick Sea On the East with the Red-Sea and on the VVest with the Atlantick Ocean called Mare del Nort so that her longitude and latitude contains about four thousand and two hundred English miles It s much lesse than Asia and far bigger than Europe In most parts it s very barren and therefore hath no great plenty of Inhabitants It s full of sandy desarts which lying open to the winds and storms are often moved like to the waves of the Sea by which means Cambysis with his Army was much hazarded It s full of venemous Serpents which much endanger the Inhabitants besides other ravenous beasts which ranging about possesse themselves of a great part of this Country and make it a VVildernesse of Lions Leopards Elephants and in some places Crocodiles Hyena's Basilisks and Monsters without number and name for when for want of water Creatures of all kinds at sometimes of the year come to those few rivolets that bee to quench their thirst the Males promiscuously forcing the Females of every species that comes next him produceth this variety of forms Salust reports that there dye more of the people by beasts than by diseases And in the tracts of Barbary the Inhabitants every tenth fifteenth or five and twentieth year are visited with a Plague and with the French disease in such violence that few recover except they remove into Numidia or the land of Negros the very air whereof is an excellent Antidote against those diseases Their commodities are Elephants Camels Barbary-hoâ—ses Rams with great tails weighing above twenty pound c. Africa is divided into seven parts Barbary or Mauritania Numidia Lybia The land of Blacks Aethiopia superior Aethiopia inferior and Egypt besides the Islands Barbary hath on the North the Mediterranean Sea on the VVest the Atlantick on the South the mountain Atlas and on the East Egypt The Inhabitants are crafty covetous ambitious jealous of their VVives their Country yeelds Orenges Dates Olives Figs and a kinde of Goat whose hair makes a stuff as fine as Silk It contains in it the Kingdomes of Tunnis Algier Fess and Morocho Tunnis is famous for the chief City of the same name five miles in compasse and Carthage two and twenty miles in circuit that contended so long with Rome for the Monarchy of the world and Utica memorable for Catoes death there Algier contains in it a strong harbor for Turkish Pirates before the chief Town whereof the Emperor Charles the fifth received a mighty losse of ships Horses Ordinance and men Fess hath in it a City with seven hundred Churches one of which is a mile and an half in compasse Morocho where the chief City of the same name hath a Church larger than that of Fess and thereon a Tower so high that from thence may bee discerned the toâ— of the Mountains Azaci which are at one hundred and thirty miles distance Here is also a Castle famous for Globes of pure gold that stand on the top of it weighing one hundred and thirty thousand Barbary Duckeâ—â— Numidia the second part of Africa hath on the East Egypt on the VVest the Atlantick Ocean on the North the Mountain Atlas and on the South the desarts of Lybia It s called also the Region of Dates from the abundance that grows there The Inhabitants are very wicked stay in a place but till they have eaten down the grasse Hence there are but few Cities and those in some places three hundred miles distant Lybia on the East is bounded with Nilus on the West with the Atlantick on the North with Numidia and on the South with the Country of the Blacks It s so dry that a traveller can scarce meet with any water in seven dayes journey the Inhabitants live without any Law almost so much as that of nature The Land of Blacks or Negroes hath on the West the Atlantick on the East Aethiopia superior on the North Lybia and on the South the Kingdome of Manicongo The River Niger runs through it almost as famous as Nilus for her overflowing It yeelds store of gold silver Ivory and other commodities It hath in it four Kingdomes Tombuâ—o infinitly rich Bornaum where the people have no names proper no wives peculiar all therefore no children which they call their own Gonga the King whereof hath no estate but from his subjects as hee spends it And Gualatum a very poor Country Of this Land of Negroes one makes these verses The Land of Negroes is not far from thence neerer extended to th' Atlantick main Wherein the Black Prince keeps his residence attended by his Jetty-coloured train Who in their native beauty
most delight And in contempt do paint the Devil white Aethiopia superior or the Kingdome of the Abyssines Is bounded on the North with Egypt on the South with the Mountains of the Moon on the East with the Red-Sea and on the VVest with the Country of the Blacks The King hereof is called Prete Janny or Presbyter John they are mungril Christians The King hath under him seventy petty Kings which have their several laws and customes The Country yeelds Orenges Lemmons Citrons Barley Sugar Honey c. Aethiopia inferior is on every side begirt with the Sea except on the North which is bounded with the Mountains of the Moon It consists of five Kingdomes 1 Aiana which abounds with Gold Ivory Honey Wax Corn large sheep c. 2 Zanguabar in which is Mosambique 3 Monomopata wherein are plenty of Gold Mines The King is served with great pomp and hath a guard of two hundred Mastiffs 4 Cafraria in which is the cape of Good hope alwayes stormy to the Spaniards whence one was very angry with God for suffering the English Hereticks to passe by it so easily and not giving his good Catholicks the like speed 5 Manicongo where in many parts the Inhabitants are men-eaters selling such flesh in their Shambles Egypt hath on the East the Red-Sea on the VVest Barbary on the North the Mediterranean and Aethiopia superior on the South It was called the Granary of the VVorld for though it hath rain but seldome yet Nilus overflowing makes it very fruitful the chief Cities are Grand Cairo and Alexandria see afterward a more full discription of it The Islands belonging to Africa Described The Atlantick Islands are 1. that of Saint Thomas lying directly under the Aequinoctiall line inhabited by the Portugalls and yeilding plenty of Sugar 2. Prince Island lying between the Aequator and Tropick of Capricorn a fertile place 3. The Gorgades being nine in number lying neer to Cape Virde they abound in Goats and the chief of them is called St. James 4. The Canaries for their fruitfulnesse called The fortunate Islands they are seven in number the cheif is called the Grand Canary they yeild excellent wines 5. The Hesperides not far from the Gorgades where the soil is very fruitful the weather continually fair and the air very temperate The Aethiopick Islands are 1. The Island of Saint Laurence or Madagascar which is four thousand miles in compasse and longer than Italy rich in all commodities for mans use The people are very barbarous and most of them black yet there is some white amongst them supposed to bee transplanted out of China 2. Socatrina or Socotera which lyes at the mouth of the Red-sea and is sixty miles in length and twenty five in breadth It s very dry and barren yet hath diverse good drugs in it From thence cometh our Aloes Socotrina The Principal Countries in Africa more largely Described Africa is usually divided into 1 Egypt 2 Barbary 3 Numidia 4 Lybia 5 The land of Negro's 6 Aethiopia interior 7 Aethiopia exterior 8 And the Islands as was aforesaid A more full Description of Egypt This Country of Egypt containeth in length from Siene to the Mediterranean Sea five hundred sixty and two miles and in breadth from Rosetta to Damietta above one hundred and forty miles yet in some places it s not above thirty seven miles broad The Inhabitants are tawny and brown From its fruitfulnesse it was called Horreum Populi Romani The Roman Granary where Lucan saith The Earth content with its own wealth doth crave No forreign Marts nor Jove himself they have There hopes alone in Nilus fruitful wave Dr. Heilen This Nilus is divided towards the Sea into seven Channels It swelleth above its banks by the space of forty days beginning upon the 15th day of June and is forty days more decreasing and returning into its banks During this inundation the Cattle live on hills and in the Towns unto which they are aforehand driven and foddered till the return of the water into its Channel The Towns and Villages stand all upon tops of hills and in the time of the flood appear like so many Islands and the people by boats have free intercourse all the while In the mud left upon the fields are many creatures ingendred by the heat of the Sun Whence Ovid And when the seven mouth'd Nile the fields forsakes And to his ancient Channel him betakes The tillers of the ground live creatures find Of sundry shapes int h ' mud that 's left behind Dr. Heilen This River is almost three thousand miles long and being the only River of Egypt affords the only drink to the Egyptians and indeed it s very good water The Paper made of Sedges called Papiri growing by this River afforded Ptolemy Philadelphus materials for Books in that brave Library of Alexandria but understanding that Attalus King of Pergamus used this Egyptian Paper for to exceed him in another Library hee prohibited the carrying of it out of Egypt whereupon Attalus invented Parchment called from his City Pergamena and before these inventions they wrote either on the inside of the bark of a tree called Liber whence wee call our Books Libri Or on Tables made of wood called Caudex whence came our Codex Or on Tables covered over with wax whence Tabellarius is a letter Carryer and the pin which they wrote with was called Stylus which was afterwards used for that peculiar phrase used by any as Negligens Stylus exercitatus Stylus Sometimes they wrote in leaves as the Sybils did their Prophesies called Sybillae folia whence we call it a leaf of paper Pharos is a little Island over against Alexandria in which Ptolemaeus Philadelphus built a watch-tower for the benefit of Saylors the chief workman was Sostratus of Gnidos It was all of white Marble of a wonderfull height ascended by degrees and in the top were many Lanthorns with lights in the night to direct those that travelled by Sea for the admirable structure it was counted one of the wonders of the world The chief Cities in Egypt described The Grand Cairo described The Grand Cairo in Egypt is accounted one of the greatest Cities in the world It is situated upon a most beautiful plain neer unto a certain Mountain called Mucatun about two miles from the River Nilus It 's invirond with stately walls and fortified with Iron Gates In it are built most stately and admirable Palaces and Colledges and most sumptuous Temples There are also many Bath stoves very artificially built It aboundeth with all sorts of Merchandise out of all parts of the World There is in it a famous Burse Exchange called Canen Halili wherein the Persian Merchants dwell It 's built very stately in the manner of a King's Palace of three stories high Beneath it are many rooms whither Merchants resort for the exchange of their costly wares as all sorts of Spices precious stones Cloth of India c. There is also a stately Hospital the yearly
no other Town within three hundred miles of it In this Country are abundance of Dates whence it s called Dactylorum regio This fruit is most of â—heir food and with the stones of them they feed their Goats which makes them fat and causeth them to give store of milk The air hath this property that it presently cures all that have the French disease and come into it The chief Cities are Stafilet Dausen Dara Lapsa and Teffet Lybia hath on the East Nilus on the VVest the Atlantick Ocean On the North Numidia and on the South the Land of Negroes In this Country Arius the Heretick was born who denyed the perpetual divinity of Christ. It is now called Sarra i. e. a Desart because the whole Country is full of sandy Desarts through which Merchants use to travel eight dayes together without the sight of either River Lake Bush or Tree The chief Cities are Huadan Guargata and Toherraum They have neither King nor Lawes but are governed by the chief man in every Tribe They are most Gentiles they have some Mahometans amongst them The Land of Negroes described The Land of Negroes hath on the East Aethiopia superior On the West the Atlantick Ocean On the North Lybia and on the South the Kingdome of Manicongo The people are very ignorant and bruitish most of them Gentiles yet are there some Mahometans and Christians amongst them They took the Portugal ships when they first saw them for great birds with white wings their guns for the work of the Devil and bag-pipes for living Creatures The Nobles in the presence of the King never look him in the face but sit on their buttocks with their elbows on their knees and their hands on their faces they anoint their hair with fat of fishes which makes them stink abominably They have abundance of gold and silver very pure and fine It s watered with the River Niger which from the fifteenth of June overflows its banks for the space of forty dayes and is so many more before it returns into its channel which makes the fields very fruitful In one place Niger hides it self for six miles under ground The second River is Senega upon whose Northern bank the people are cole black but on the South only tawny The Chief Kingdomes are 1 Gualata where they have no Laws 2 Guinie where there is neither Town nor Castle except Mina built by the Portugals 3 Tombutum where the Inhabitants spend all their time in singing and dancing The King hereof is the richest of all the Princes in those parts of Africa keeping a royal Palace and hath for his guard three thousand horsemen and footmen sance number 4 Melli which is three hundred miles long the Inhabitants are rich civil and industrious 5 Cana where are Plenty of Lemons and Pomegranats 6 Gialoâ—ie where the people are so nimble that they will leap upon a horse when hee gallops and stand upright when hee runs turn themselves about and suddenly sit down mount and dismount in a trice 7 Benin where the people rase their skins with three lines drawn to the Navel without which they think they cannot bee saved Both men and women go naked till they bee married and then they wear a cloath from the wast to the knees 8 Nubia where there is a poison so exceeding strong that the tenth part of a grain will kill a man in a quarter of an hour It s sold for one hundred Duckats the ounce 9 Bornum where the people have neither wives nor children that they call their own nor names but are only distinguished by some external accident 10 Goaga where the King hath no revenues but what hee winnes from his enemies 11 Ganaga where the King hath nothing but what his Nobles please daily to allow him The Country of the Mandigos described In Guinie upon the River Gambra live the Mandingos The River abounds with Crocodiles River-horses Torpedoes running-fishes c. On the banks of it are many Geese Ducks Hernes Curlews Storks Plovers c. On the Land are Beeves Goats Guinie Hens c. The people are perfeclty black and live a very idle life except it bee in their seed-time and harvest their usual food is Rice or some Grain boiled their drink is water or Dullo made of Grain like our Ale Their houses are round covered with Reeds many of them built together and compassed with a wall of Reeds six foot high to defend them from wild-beasts which yet many times much endanger them There are Ant-hills cast up by Pismires some of them twenty foot high and in compasse able to contain twelve men which with the heat of the Sun are baked into that hardnesse that our English which trade thither for gold use to hide themselves in the ragged tops of them when they take up their stands to shoot at Deer or other beasts The Town wherein the King dwels is seated on the River compassed about with Hurdles ten foot high and fastened to strong poles On the outside is a Trench of great breadth beyond which the Town is again circled with Posts set close together of about five foot high their Armes are Azegaies or Javelins made of Reeds six foot long with an Iron Pike artificially made and dangerous they have others that they cast like Darts with barbed heads as also swords about two foot long Some have Bows and Arrows made of Reeds headed with Iron poisoned when any of them come to the King they presently kneel down and comming nearer they lay their hands first upon the ground then upon their head then comming to him they lay their hand with much submission upon the Kings thigh and so retire back the King answers them with nodding his head They are generally cloathed in cloth made of Cotton whereof there is plenty their apparrel is a shirt to their knees and a pair of breeches they are mostly bare-headed their hair bedecked with Gregories made of leather of several fashions which whilst they wear they think that no evil can betide them The King hath two wives sitting by him laying their hands on his naked skin stroaking and gently pulling the same VVhen the woman is with child shee lyes no more with her husband till the child bee weaned The wives live in great servitude beating their Grain in Morters they never are admitted to sit and eat with their husbands you shall never see kissing or dalliance betwixt husband and wife nor brawling amongst the wives though one man hath many and they equal each woman hath her several house for the night and when they appear in the morning they salute their husbands kneeling laying their hands on his thigh her apparrel is loose and party-coloured from the wast upward shee is bare to shew her painted razed body whereof they are proud turning themselves to shew it and well pleased when you handle it Few either of men or women are without Tobacco-pipes made of earth well glazed about two inches long
buyers costly mirth and admiration to prevent which the Marriners upon the delivery of each beast either kill it quickly or fasten their horns with cords to stakes placed there on purpose The Kingdome of Sofala Described Sofala is situate on the cost of Eastern Ethiopia neer the Sea here the Portugals traffick to Manica a Land of much Gold within land above threescore Leagues the women perform the offices of Tillage and Husbandry In it are many sorts of fruit as Pomgranats which bear all the year some green some ripe and some in flowers Fig-trees which yeild black Figs all the year about Oranges Limes Vines which bear twice a year in January and July Ananas Sugar canes Palm-trees which yeild infinite Cocoes and Wine Guiny Wheat and Rice There are abundance of Hens Goats Kine Wild beasts and wild Swine In Manica grow little trees on Rocks which are dry most part of the year but if you cut off a bough and put it into water in the space of ten hours it springs and flourisheth with green leaves In some parts they have store of Orenges and Lemons The King of this Country is called the Quitive they are Gentiles Hee hath above one hundred women whereof one or two are his Queens and many of them are his Aunts Cosins Sisters and Daughters all whom hee useth promiscuously when hee dies his Queens must dye with him to do him service in the other world The Kingdome of Monomopata Described Monomopata is above two hundred Leagues long On the North-West lies the Kingdome of Abutua where is much fine Gold yet their greatest riches they count their Cattle On the East it hath the River Zambeze On the South-West it extends to the Ocean and Southward it s bounded with the River Inhanabane The King hath many women whereof one is principal None may speak with him except hee bring a present The King and his Subjects wear a white Perewinkle in their foreheads for a jewell fastened in their hair and the King hath another great one on his breast None of them cut the hair of their heads or beards yet they grow not long they live commonly to ninety or one hundred years when the King dyes his Queen must drink poyson to serve him in another World It abounds so with Elephants that about five thousand are yearly killed for their teeth-sake There are said to bee three thousand Mines of Gold The Kingdome of Congo or Manicongo Described The Kingdome of Congo hath on the West the Ocean On the South the Caphars and Mountains of the Moon On the East those Hills from which the Rivers issue and run into the Fountains of Nilus and on the North the Kingdome of Benin The most Southerly part is called Quimbibe a great and mighty Kingdome extending from Bravagal to Bagamidri the air is wholesome the earth out-outwardly furnished with store of fruits inwardly with Mines of Christal and other mettals Angola is another Province of Congo a great Kingdome and very populous Cabazza is the Royal City one hundred and fifty miles from the Ocean from this Country the Portugals use to carry above twenty thousand slaves yearly into Brasile They are Heathens have their Idols of wood in the midst of their Towns in fashion like a Negro which they call Mokisso's they take as many wives as they please there are Mines of Silver and excellent Copper they have many Kine but love Dogs-flesh better which they feed for the Shambles their houses are fashioned like Bee-hives Horse-tails are great Jewels amongst them for one of which they will give two slaves Congo properly so called extendeth Westward three hundred seventy five miles Northward five hundred and forty Southward six hundred crossing over the Mountains of the Sun and the Mountain of Christal It s divided into six Provinces Bamba Songo Sundi Pango Batti and Pemba Bamba is the greatest and richest there are Mines of silver and on the Sea-shore shells which they use in stead of mony Amongst them there are some very strong men who will cleave a slave in the middle or cut off a Bulls head at one blow There are certain creatures as big as Rams having wings like Dragons long tails and chaps with diverse rows of teeth they live upon raw flesh their colour is blew and green and they have but two feet the Pagan Negroes worship them for Gods The Rivers of Congo are many the greatest whereof is Zatre In all of them are River-horses and Crocodiles and they overflow as doth Nilus There are whole Mountains of Porphiry Jasper white Marble and other Marbles and one that yeelds fair Jacinthes straked with natural veins When any of the Inhabitants dye they have no power to bequeath their goods to their kindred but the King is heire general to all men The Kingdome of Loango described Loango is the Noâ—therly neighbour of Congo right under the Line the Country stretcheth two hundred miles within Land the people are called Bramanes and the King Mani Loango they are circumcised after the manner of the Jews as all the rest of the Nations in those Countries use to bee they have abundance of Elephants and wear cloaths of Palm they are Heathens and use many superstitions they have their Mokisso's or Images to which they offer several things Beyond the Country of Loango are the Anzigues the cruellest Cannibals that are under the Sun for in other places they eat their enemies or their dead but here they eat their Country-men and kins-folk and keep shambles of mans flesh as with us of Beef or Mutton They have many Mines of Copper and great quantity of Sanders both red and gray They are excellent Archers they are circumcised and worship the Sun for their greatest God and the Moon next Ethiopia Superior called also Abassia described It is watered with four principal Rivers and as many huge Lakes The first River is Taucea running Northward but drunk up by the thirsty sands before it can come to the Sea It hath bordering upon it Mountains of admirable height and inaccessible The second River is Oara larger than Nilus that emptieth it self into the Sea of Zeila the water is very clear but the superstitious Abassines refuse to drink of it because in its passage it watereth some Mahometan Regions The third is Gabea and the fourth is Nilus One of the Lakes is called Dambea threescore mile long and five and twenty broad It abounds with fish and River-horses and in it are many Islands in which traitors are confined The Abassine soil is for the most part hollow and in the midst of the plains rise many Rockie-hills which in times of war serve them for Fortresses The whole Country abounds with Mettal-Mines but the inhabitants partly through ignorance and partly for fear of the Turks if the riches of their Country should bee discovered suffer them to lye hidden in the earth only they make use of so much Iron as lyes upon the surface of the earth Of plants and
many Countrys both of Europe and Asia It s divided betwixt the Empire of Germany the Turk and the Venetians Greece hath on the West the Adriatick sea on the East the Aegean Hellespont and Propontis Northward the Mountain Hemus and Southward the Mediterranean It was once the seat of the worlds Empire and flourished above other Countries with all sorts of humane learning It was one of the first that embraced the Gospel and bred many Fathers of our Church It s now miserably enslaved to the Turks It s commonly divided into Peleponesus Achaia Epirus Albania Macedonia Migdonia and Thracia It yeilds Gold Silver Coperas Colours Wines Velvets Stuffs c. Dacia hath on the West Hungary on the East the Euxine sea on the South Greece and on the North Sarmatia from the which its divided by the Carpathian Mountains It was formerly called Misia The cheif regions in it are Transilvania Moldovia Walachia Servia Rascia Bulgaria and Bosnia Norway is in length one thousand three hundred miles in breadth about six hundred It s under the Government of the King of Denmark Theft is counted the greatest sin amongst them It yeilds Cables Masts Furrs Stockfish which the poor eat instead of bread The Metropolitan City is Nidrosio besides which there are but two of note Bergla and Asloia On the North and West lies the populous Province of Finmark Sweden is on the East of Norway from which it is divided by the Dofrine Mountains on the North and South its bounded by the seas On the East it joynes to Muscovy It s a fertile Country and in some Provinces hath great plenty of Corn Furrs Mines of Gold Silver Copper and Lead It s divided into Gotland quasi good land Finland quasi fine land Bodia Scrickfinia Lapland c. The inhabitants often live till they bee one hundred and forty years old Thence lately have come the two great Conquerors Gustavus Adolphus that conquered much of Germany and Carolus Adolphus that now hath conquered Poland and most of Prussia Muscovy is the last country of Europe towards the East and part of it stands in Asia It s bounded on the West with Livonia and part of Sweden On the East with Tartary on the North with the frozen seas and on the South with Lituania The length of it is three thousand miles the breadth of it is three thousand threescore and five Most of it is extream cold but to help that they have great store of Furrs as sables Martins white Foxes c. It hath store of Corn Fruit and Cattel The people are very base contentious ignorant and sottishly superstitious They bury their dead upright with a staff in his hand and a penny in his Purse with a letter to St. Nicolas to procure him entrance into heaven The chief Provinces are Muscovy where stands the Regal City of Mosco Pernia where they eat dryed stags flesh instead of bread Rhesan full of Corn and Horses c. The Islands in Europe Described In the Western Atlantick Seas are Groenland Groviland Island and Frisland These are extream cold yet yeild plenty of Fish Oil Whale bones and Morses teeth In the British Seas are Ireland Great Britain with her train the Orcades Hebrides Silly Man Weight Anglesey Jersey Garnsey c. Others there are of lesse note in the German Seas and those which divide Norway and Sweden from Germany and Poland Towards Spain are the Azores nine in number the chief of them is Faial The Southern Islands of Europe lie in the Mediterranean Seas As the Baleans neer Spain Corsica Sardinia neer Italy Sicily and Malta In the Adriatick and Jonian seas Absorrus Curicta Scardona Insulae Diomedeae Issa Tragurium Pharia Corsica and Melitum More Southward Ertcusa Cephalenia Ithica Echidnades Zazinthus the Strophades and Cythera In the mouth of the Aegean sea is Candy an I le of five hundred and twenty miles in compasse abounding with Cypresse trees and a lascivious wine called Malmesey The chiefest Islands in the Aegean sea are Melos Chias Bria the Cyclades Sporades Delos c. But I will write a little more particularly of the chiefest of these Islands as 1 Samothracia which is a small Island where the air is most cleer and pure the chief Town is Samia beautified with a goodly harbour but now by reason of the Pyrates infesting it left almost desolate 2 Lemnos containing in circuit almost one hundred miles here is digged that soveraign Mineral called Terra Lemnia and Sigillata because it s sealed when made into pellets with a Turkish character The VVestern parts are dry and barren the Eastern more fruitful It contains about seventy five Villages 3 Lesbos is one hundred sixty eight miles in compasse the South and VVest parts are mountainous and barren the rest level and fruitful 4 Chios is one hundred twenty and five miles in compasse It beareth that sweet Gum called Mastick In it are an infinite number of Partridges that are of a red colour they are kept tame and fed in flocks in the streets and Villages a little boy or girle driving them into the fields and with a whistle calling them home again The most excellent Greekish VVines are made here called Vina Chia 5. Euboea over against Chios now called Negropont is in compasse three hundred sixty five miles A very fruitful Island between the continent and it is only a little Euripus that ebbs and flowes seven times in one day the reason whereof when Aristotle could not finde out hee threw himself into it saying Quia ego non capio te tu capis me In it are two Rivers Cireus and Nileus Strabo saith that if sheep drink of the former their wooll turns white if on the latter coal black The Sporades are twelve in number the chiefest is Milo fourscore miles in circuit the soil is fruitful of grain and oil Here is excellent Marble curiously spotted pitch and brimstone and hot springs good for many diseases The Cyclades are in number three and fifty the chiefest are 1. Delos wherein they had a custome not to suffer men to dye nor children to bee born in it sending their sick men and great bellied women to Rhena a small Island hard by 2 Samos where the Tyrant Polycrates lived who because hee never had any mischance threw a Ring that hee loved dearly into the Sea but shortly after hee found it in the belly of a fish that was brought to his Table yet was hee at length brought to a miserable death by Orontes a Persian shewing the instability of all earthly things 3. Patmos whither St. John was banished by the Emperor Domitian and where hee had his Revelations In the Cretan Seas are 1. Crete in compasse five hundred and ninety miles in length two hundred and seventy in breadth fifty the soil is fruitful especially of Wines called Muskadels it yeelds also Sugar-Candie Gums Hony Sugar Olives Dates Apples Orenges Lemons Raisons Citrons and Pomegranats yet it wants Corn. It s very populous Paul
the English under the conduct of Charles Earle of Nottingham Robert Earle of Essex and Sir Walter Rawleigh at which time they burnt the Spanish Indian fleet consisting of forty ships whose lading was worth eight millions of Crowns They overthrew also the Spanish fleet consisting of fifty seven men of war they took two great Gallions with their luggage they spoiled and carryed away abundance of warlike amunition they slew and took prisoners four thousand foot and six hundred horse whence one made this Distich Alcides yeelds to Devereux hee did see Thy beauties Cales but Devereux conquer'd thee The British Islands discribed England is bounded on the East with the German on the West with the Irish on the South with the Brittish Oceans and on the North with the River Tweed and a line drawn from it to Solwal VVestward Formerly the Northern limit was a wall crosse the Island from Carlile in Cumberland to the River Tine It was built by Severus as a fortresse against the Picts at every miles end was a Castle between every Castle many Watch-Towers and through the walls of every Tower and Castle went a pipe of brasse which from one Garrison to another conveyed the least noise without interruption so that the intelligence of an invading enemy was quickly made known to all the borders VVhen the wall failed the strong Townes of Berwick and Carlile were the chief bars against invasion It s in length three hundred and twenty miles concerning our commodities they are thus reckoned up England is stored with Mountains Bridges Wooll With Churches Rivers Women beautiful The Bridges are in number eight hundred fifty and seven The Rivers are three hundred twenty and five the chief is Thames which ebbs and flowes twice a day more than threescore miles The banks of it are so adorned with fair Towns and Princely Palaces that a Dutch Poet made verses of them thus Englished Wee saw so many VVoods and Princely Bowers Sweet Fields brave Palaces and stately Towers So many Gardens drest with curious care That Thames with royal Tiber may compare The second River is Severne whose head is in Plinlimmon hill in Mountgomry-shire and ends seven miles short of Bristol washing in the mean space the walls of Shrewsbury VVorcester and Gloucester The third Trent so called from thirty kindes of fish found in it It s fountain is in Stafford-shire and passing through the Counties of Nottingham Lincoln Lecester and York it meets with Humber the most violent River in all England The fourth Humber made up of the Rivers Dun Are VVarfe You re Darwent and principally Ouze and Trent The fifth Medway a Kentish River famous for harbouring the Royal Navy at Chatham The sixth Tweed the North East bound of England on whose Northern bank stands the strong Town of Berwick The seventh Tine famous for Newcastle and her inexhaustible Coale-pits These with the rest are thus set forth by Draiton the Poet. Our Floods Queen Thames for ships and Swans is crowned And stately Severn for her shore is praised The Christal Trent for foords and fish renown'd And Avons fame to Albions cliffs is raised Carlegion Chester vaunts her holy Dee York many wonders of her Ouse can tell The Peak her Dove whose banks so fertil bee And Kent will say her Medway doth excel Cotswol commends her Isis to the Tame Our Northen borders boast of Tweeds fair flood Our VVestern parts extol their VVillies fame And the old Lea brags of th' Danish blood Our women are the most beautiful in the world without the help of any adulterate Sophistications In a compleat woman say the Italians should bee the parts of a Dutch woman from the girdle downward the parts of a French woman from the girdle to the shoulders over which must bee placed an English face And as their persons so their priviledges are greater here than in any other Nation they being not so servilely submiss as the French nor so jealously guarded as the Italians hence England is called the Purgatory of servants the hell of horses and the Paradise of women And the Italians commonly say that if there were a bridge built over the narrow Seas all the women of Europe would runne into England For here they have the upper hand in the streets and at the Table the thirds of their husbands estates their equal shares in lands priviledges wherewith women in other countrys are not acquainted The wooll of England is excellent fine especially that of Cotswold in Glocester shire of Lemster in Hereford shire and in the I le of Wight Of it are made excellent broad-cloaths which are dispersed all over the World bringing in much money into the Realm and setting on work so many poor people And the giving of some Cotswold sheep by King Edward the fourth to Henry King of Castile Anno Christi 1465. is counted one of the greatest prejudices that ever hapned to this Nation The wooll transported hath brought into us no lesse than one million and five hundred thousand pound yearly and our Lead half as much Wee have more Parks in England than in all Europe besides Lately we had Chases thirty Forrests fifty five Parks seven hundred forty and five replenished with abundance of Game Our Mines are of Tin Lead and Coals Beer wee have plenty which being transported into France the Lowcountries and Germany is amongst them highly esteemed We have so many well-tuned bells that Forreigners have called it The Ringing Island Our Air is very temperate No seas in Europe yeild more plenty of fish Our Oisters were famous amongst the old Romans Our Herrings yeild great profit to the Netherlanders Our Nobility have not such unlimited power as in other Nations Our commonalty live in far greater reputation than they do in other Countries and have more civility in them Our Ministry is learned and religious and have a more practical and powerful manner of Preaching than in any other Nation Their printed works are so famous that many young Schollers of other Nations come over on purpose to learn our language that they may bee able to make use of our Books they are also the best provided for of any Ministers in the reformed Churches The Diet of England is for the most part flesh In London alone there are slain and uttered no fewer than sixty seven thousand and five hundred beefes and six hundred seventy five thousand sheep besides Calves Lambs Swine and Poultry in a year I beleeve now farre more The Spanish Gondamor when hee was here having often seen our Shambles said that there was more flesh here eaten in a month than in all Spain in a year A Forreigner comming to London and seeing such multitudes of people in the streets wondred where there could bee meat to fill so many bellies but when hee had seen our Shambles and markets hee wondred where there could bee bellies to eat so much meat Our Navy is called the walls of England the like ships for service are not to
Scandia which belongs to Denmark is divided into three Provinces 1. Hallandia 2. Scania in length threescore and twelve miles in breadth eight and forty the pleasantest and fruitfullest Country in all Denmark and having Seas abounding with Herrings 3. Blicker where is Colmar a strong Fortress against the Swedes The Province of Scania reaches up to Sweden and Juâ—land to Holstein The Kingdome is elective and the principal strength of it consists in good and stately ships not only for the defence of the Islands but of that most important passage of the Sound which is a streight separating Scania from Zeland and is of huge advantage by reason of the infinite number of ships which pass through it into the Baltick Sea and come from all the Havens of that Sea back into the Ocean The Noble men are much inclined to the wars zealous for their Rights and Liberties and make no alliance by marriage with the common people they refuse Ecclesiastical honours as below their condition The Gentlemen are all equal and as it were of one family there being neither Earl nor Baron only the Officers of the Crown and Counsellers of the Kingdome have the preheminence Norway described Norway is bounded on the North with Lapland on the East with the Doâ—rine Mountains which part it from Swethlâ—nd on the other parts with the Sea It s in length one thousand and three hundred miles in breadth not half so much It s much troubled with certain little Beasts called Lemmers about the bigness of a field-mouse which like Locusts devoure every green thing on the earth and at a certain time die in heaps and with their stench poison the air so that the people are long after troubled with the Jaundies and a giddinesse in the head but these beasts come not often The soil is barren and the common people live on dryed fish in stead of bread The chief Commodities are stock-fish butter rich furrs train Oile pitch masts cables deal-boards c. Towns here are few and the houses are miserably poor their cheif towns are 1. Nidrosia 2. Bergen an ancient mart town 3. Asloia 4. Staffanger On the North and West of it lieth Finmark a great and populous Province both of them are subject to Denmark The chief towns in Finmark are 1. Saman 2. Hielso both sea towns 3. Wardhouse a place of much trading Swethland Described Swethland hath on the East Muscovy on the West the Dofrine hills on the North the frozen Seas and on the South the Baltick Sea which doth not ebb and flow This Sea begins at the Sound and interlaceth Denmark Swethland Germany and Poland extending to Livonia and Lituania This Countrey with the Provinces of Lapland Scricfinia and Barmia is bigger than France and Italy joyned together The soil is fruitful the aire healthfull so that many of the Inhabitants live to one hundred and thirty and some to one hundred and forty years old It yeilds Mines of Lead Copper and Silver Buck-skines Goat-skines Oxen Tallow Tar costly Furrs c. The chief Provinces are 1. Lapland which is divided into two parts whereof the Eastern part belongs to the great Duke of Mosco the western containing Lapland properly so called and Scricfinia belong to Swethland they have store of rich Furrs but use not many and are good Archers 2. Bodia lying on the South of Scricfinia the chief towns whereof are 1. Virtis 2. Vista 3. Helsinga 3. Finland which hath the Baltick sea on the South It s a very fruitfull and populous Countrey containing one thousand four hundred thirty and three Parishes wherein are a thousand Families in some of them the chief towns are 1. Albo. 2. Name a strong place c. 4. Sweden which hath on the East Sinus Bodicus on the West the Dofrine Hills on the North Lapland and on the South Gothland For the most part it is a fruitful Countrey the chief Cities are 1. Upsale 2. Nicopia a sea town 3. Coperdole famous for its abundance of Brasse 5. Gothland which is the best and richest Province of the North It s divided into the Island and the Continent The Island of Gothland is seated in the Baltick sea being in length eighteen miles and but five broad the chief Town is Wisbich The continent of Gothland joyns to Denmark and hath in it the great Lake Weret which receiving into it twenty and four Rivers empties it self at one mouth with such an hideous noise that it is commonly called the Devills head The chief Cities are 1. Stockholm 2. Lodusia 3. Walburg 4. Colmar famous for its impregnable Castle Sweden is the biggest of all the Northern Kingdomes the Regall City whereof is Stockholm a town with the suburbs of great distent there are in it many huge Mountains Rocks and Forrests where are sometimes seen and hard strange illusions and phancies as likewise in the water which are very terrible both to men and horses that pass that way The Swedes are good souldiers both by sea and Land of a strong complexion and fit to indure hardship and labour the Nobility is very milde and frank loves learning and Languages especially the Latine and French they travel much abroad are dextrous at exercises and seek learned company they heartily love one another out of their own Country hide the vices of their compatriots and stand much for the honour of their Nation Muscovy Described Muscovy hath on the East Tartary on the West Livonia Lituania and part of Sweden on the North the frozen Ocean and on the South the Caspian sea and lake of Meotis It is in length from East to West three thousand and three hundred miles in breadth three thousand sixty and five The women love their husbands best that beat them most they use the Sclavonian Language and in their Religion follow the Greek Churches the Northren parts are so cold that the people do not only line their cloaths but their houses with Furrs the chief Commodities are rich Furs Flax Hemp Oil Honey Wax Canvasses Nuts c. It hath many great rivers as 1. Tanais which emptieth it self into Palus Meotis 2. Duina running into the Scythian seas 3. Boristhenes or Neiper running into the Euxine sea 4. Onega running into the Baltick sea 5. Volga which at seventy mouths empties it self into the Caspian sea The chief Provinces are 1. Novograd having a City of the same name on the Baltick sea a place of great trading 2. Plescovia whose chief town is Plescow it is in length three hundred and thirty miles and one hundred and thirty in breadth 3. Volodomire a fruitful Country where usually one bushel of Corn returns twenty and sometimes five and twenty the chief town is of the same name 4. Rhezan very plentiful in Corn Hony Fish Fowl c. 5. Severia a great Province upon the lake of Maeotis 6. Smolensco whose chief City is of the same name 7. Rescovy 8. Rostowia 9. Corelia 10. Permia where are abundance of stags 11. Condora 12. Petzora 13.
roving about from one place of the Country to another without property either of house or land Their leader in every company is a Priest Lapland described On the North of Russia next to Corelia lyeth Lappia about three hundred forty and five miles in length in breadth fourscore and ten The whole Country almost is either Lakes or Mountains those on the outside are barren craggie Rocks but in the inland they are well furnished with woods the Lakes being in the Vallies their diet is very mean bread they have none but feed only upon Fish and Fowle they are subjects part to Russia part to Sweden and the other part to Denmark which all exact tribute of them but the Emperor of Russia the most They are wholly unlearned not having so much as the use of the Alphabet amongst them They pass all Nations in witch-craft and sorcery Their weapons are long-Bows and hand-guns wherein they are very nimble and excellent marks-men through their continual practise in shooting at wilde fowle For our English cloath they give Fish Oil and Furs whereof they have store when their fishing is done they draw their boats to shore turning the keel upwards and so let them lye till the next spring-tyde They travel upon sleds drawn by Olen-Deer which they use to turn a grazing all the Summer time in an Island called Kilden and towards Winter when the Snow begins to fall they fetch them home for their use Anno Christi 1611. VVilliam Purseglove a servant to our English Muscovy company makes this relation of his travels in these Countries wee travelled saith hee in sleds each of them drawn by two Rain Deer the Snow was so hard frozen that it did bear sleds and Deer Two hundred and fifty Sleds were in this Argeshey or company with whom wee travelled some dayes then chusing the best Bucks I with seven Sleds more rid Post only staying now and then for an hour where the Samoed our guide knew that there was store of white Moss wherewith to refresh our Deer so that in eight and forty hours space wee rode three hundred and fifty miles These Samoeds by their frequent travel know the wayes though the weather bee thick and foggy as also where store of white Moss grows at which places if it bee night they pitch their Tents made of Deer or Elks-skins which work is done by the women and in the mean time the men unyoak the Deer and turn them loose to dig through the Snow though it bee very deep to seek for their food and sustenance Pur. Pil. v. 3. p. 548. When a rich Samoed dies because hee should not travel on foot his friends will kill three Deer to carry him into the new World they will also strangle a slave to attend on him If a young child dye under seven years old they use to hang it by the neck on some tree saying it must flye to Heaven The women are very hardy and at their labour the Husband plaies the Midwife as soon as the child is born they wash it with cold or Snow-water and the next day the woman will bee able to conduct her Argish of Sleds The men are stout and bold of spirit not very tall but broad breasted broad faced with hollow eyes their weapons are Bows and Arrows long Spears and short Swords Poland described This Country is plain and wooddie the air so cold that they have no Wine or Grapes but use Ale in stead thereof It so abounds with Corn that it sends much abroad into other Countries they have also great store of cattel They use the Sclavonian language yet are much addicted to the Latine tongue They are generally proud impatient delicious in diet and costly in attire they are of all Religions The chief Rivers are 1. Vistula which parts it from Hungary 2. Neister which parts it from Moldovia 3. Neiper c. But to speak more particularly of the Provinces which are 1. Livonia which is bounded on the East with Muscovy on the West with the Baltick Sea on the North with Finland and on the South with Lituania It s in length five hundred miles in breadth one hundred and threescore very mountainous and fenny yet yeelds plenty of Corn. The chief Cities are 1. Riga 2. Derpt a town of much traffick 3. Rivalia a strong place 4. Name another strong Fortress Other chief Countries in it are 1. Curland 2. Senugal 3. Estland 4. Virland 5. Harland 6. Geroenland 2. Lituania which hath Livonia on the South Podolia on the North Poland on the East and Muscovie on the West The chief Cities are 1. Vilna an University 2. Vilkomire 3. Brestia The air is sharp and the Country barren yet are there many beasts whose skins are good commodities 3. Volinia environed with Lituania Podolia and Russia It is a small woody Province the chief Cities are Kiovia and Circassia on the banks of the river Nieper 4. Samogitia whose chief town is Camia It joyneth to Livonia on the North and the Baltick sea on the West It s full of wood and yeilds great store of honey 5. Podolia which hath Lituania on the North Neister on the South Russia East and Poland VVest The ground is so fertile that of one sowing they have three harvests the chief Cities are 1. Camienza seated on high rocks 2. Orkzacow 3. Winieczia 6. Russia nigra having on the East Podolia on the West and North Poland and on the South Hungary the chief Towns are 1. Leopolis or Lembourg 2. Grodeck 3. Luckzo A fruitfull Countrey having store of horses and Cattel 7. Mazovia which is environed with Russia Prussia Lituania and Poland the chief City is Marzow 8. Spruce Prussia or Borussia is upon the Baltick sea that part of it which belongs to Poland is called Prussia Regal the chief Cities whereof are 1. Dantzick a famous Mart town 2. Koningsberg an University 3. Heilsperg 4. Maneburg or Marpurg 5. Angenberg 6. Clune 9. Podlossia which hath Lituania and Mazovia on the East and West the chief Towns are 1. Tycockzin a strong for t 2. Byesko 3. Knissin 10. The Dukedomes of Opswitz and Zator which have the chief towns of the same names they are in Silesia but under the King of Poland 11. Poland properly so called which hath Lituania on the East Germany on the West Mazovia on the North and Podolia on the South the chief Cities are 1. Cracovia on the bank of Vistula 2. Lublin 3. Guisna 4. Siradia 5. Sendomire 6. Minsko 7. Posna 8. Dobrinia 9. Vlatislavia Poland takes her name from the great fields which produce a huge quantity of Corn there are in it many fens Lakes and very great Forrests where in the trunks of trees is often found great store of hony whereof they make a certain drink chiefly in Lituania which is most delicate and yeilds not a whit in goodnesse to Spanish wine there Winter is very long and sharp against the rigour whereof they serve themselves of stoves and good furred
which the tide entereth with a violent stream the other between the said Cuba and the farthest part of Florida at which the tide with the like violence goeth forth the Sea is very tempestuous and hath only two safe Havens viz. Havana on the North side and St. John de Luna on the South which are strongly fortified by the Spaniards The Country of Mexico is inferior to Peru in the plenty and purity of gold and silver but far exceeding it both in the Mechanical and ingenious arts here professed and in the abundance of fruits and cattel of which last there is such store that many a private man hath forty thousand Kine and Oxen to himself Fish also are very plentiful that only which is caught in the Lake whereon Mexico stands being reputed worth twenty thousand Crowns per annum Mexico was conquered by Ferdinando Cortez Anno Christi 1521. His Army consisting of one hundred thousand Americans nine hundred Spaniards eighty horsemen seventeen small peeces of Ordnance thirteen Brigandines and six thousand Wherrie-boats which from the Lake assaulted Mexico In Quivira another Province the riches of the people consists in cattel whose hides yeeld them coverings for their houses their bones bodkins their hair thred their sinewes ropes their horns mawes and bladders vessels their dung fire their Calf-skins budgets to draw and keep water in their blood drink and their flesh meat Nova Albion lyeth on the West towards Tartary It was discovered by Sir Francis Drake Anno Christi 1585. The King whereof did willingly resign himself and land to our Queen In it is a Hare resembling a Mole in his feet a Cat in his tail under whose chin nature hath fastened a little bag as a store-house for in it when hee hath filled his belly hee reserveth the rest of his provision It abounds in good fruits Jucutan is a Peninsula in circuit nine hundred miles a fruitful Country situated over against Cuba Florida hath on the East the Northern Sea on the West Mexico on the North New-France and on the South Virginia It abounds with goodly fruits and hath some quantity of gold and silver Emeralds are also found there and Turquesses and Pearls Women when their Husbands dye cut off their hair close to their heads strewing it upon their husbands graves and may not marry again till their hair bee grown to cover their shoulders Virginia described Virginia is seated between four and thirty and four and forty degrees of Northerly latitude It s bounded on the East with the great Ocean with Florida on the South New-France on the North and the Western limits are unknown The Summer is as hot as in Spain the VVinter is as cold as in France and England It was discovered by the English by the direction and at the charge of Sir VValter Rawleigh Anno Christi 1584. and in honour of our Virgin Queen called Virginia It yeelds store of Tobacco and now they get Silk-worms and plant store of Mulberry trees which is like to bee a good commodity There is but one entrance by Sea into this Country at the mouth of a goodly Bay The Capes on both sides are named Henry and Charles The water floweth in this Bay near two hundred miles and hath a Channel for one hundred and forty miles between seven and fifteen fathom deep and ten or fourteen miles broad At the head of the Bay the land is mountainous from which proceed great brooks which make five navigable rivers the mountains have in them Milstones Marble and some peices of Christal The earth is generally black and sandy The river neer to the mouth of the bay is called Powhatan the mouth whereof is neer three miles broad and it is Navigable one hundred miles Hence their Emperor is called Powhatan In a Peninsula on the North side thereof is placed James Town No place in Summer affords more Sturgeons whereof threescore and eight have been caught at one draught In Winter they have abundance of Fowl Fourteen miles from Powhatan is the River Pamaunk seventy miles navigable with big vessels Then Toppahanock which is Navigable one hundred and thirty miles Then Patawomeck one hundred and twenty miles navigable At the mouth of Powhatan are the Forts Henerico and Charles forty two miles upward is James Town seventy miles beyond that the Town of Henerico ten miles higher are the falls where the River falls down between Mineral rocks twelve miles beyond that there is the Crystall Rock wherewith the Indians head their Arrows The Commodities are silk-grass Hemp and Flax surpassing ours A certain Sedg which by boiling yeilds skeines of good strength and length some like silk some like flax and some like hemp There is also Allom Terra Sigillata Pitch Tar Rozen Turpentine Sassafras Cedar Grapes Oil Iron Copper c. Sweet Gums Dies Timber Trees of sweet wood of fourteen kinds Besides plenty of Fowl Fishes Beasts Fruits Plants Hearbs Berries Grains especâ—ally Maiz whereof one acre of ground will yeild two hundred Bushels of Corn Roots c. Their chief Beasts are Bears Deer a beast like a Badger but living in trees like a Squirrel Flying Squirrels another beast headed like a Swine tailed like a Rat as big as a Cat and hath under her belly a Bag wherein shee carrieth her young Their Dogs bark not their Wolves are little bigger than our Foxes their Foxes like our silver haired Conies and smell not as ours They have Eagles Hawks wild Turkies c. The People are cloathed in Deer skines about their middles else all naked Their houses are round of small poles fastened at the tops and covered with bark or mats they are good Archers so that they will kill birds flying fish swiming and beasts running Their chief God is the Devil which they call Oke whose Image is made ill-favouredly On the North of it lyes New-England planted with many English Towns especially New-Boston an haven Town and a place of good trading The other Countryes in this tract of ground have little that is remarkable in them Florida Described The length of Florida extends to twenty and five degrees It runs with a long point into the Sea and into land it stretches Westward unto the borders of New-Spain and to those Countries which are not yet fully discovered On other parts it s washed with a dangerous sea It is very rich with Silver Gold and stones of great value In it are great variety of Trees fruits fowls Beasts as Bears Leopards Ounces Wolves Wild Dogs Goats Hares Conies Deer Oxen c. Their Towns are paled about with Posts fastened in the ground having no more entrance than for two men to passe at a time where stand two watch Towers for defence their houses are round their apparrel nakedness except a skin about their secrets they paint and rase their skin curiously which they rub over with the juice of an herb that cannot bee gotten out they let their nailes on their fingers and toes grow long they are tall nimble
causeth great swelling also there is a worm that creepeth into the soles of mens feet which causeth great swelling and pain for which they have no remedy but to lance the flesh and so to dig them out They have a certain kinde of Beetles which have four lights that shine much in the dark two in their eyes and two under their wings when they flye they use to bring them into their houses where they do them double service First by killing the Gnats secondly by giving them light which is so great that they can see to read by it Kine in this Island carried thither by the Spaniards are so multiplied and grown wild that they kill them for their hides and Tallow leaving their flesh to bee devoured by dogs and fowl Almost forty thousand of them have been transported in one year Anno Christi 1519. Ants were as noisome to them as Grashoppers in other parts of the world they spoiled their fruits and fruit trees they could keep nothing in their houses which was fit to bee eaten from them and had they continued they would have unpeopled the Island There are worms also which do such harm in Timber that a house will scarce stand here thirty years when the King in this Countrey died they buried the best beloved of his Concubines with him who also had other women buried for to attend upon them in the other World together with their Jewels and Ornaments they had also set in their Sepulchre a Cup of water and some of their Cassavi bread Anno Christi 1508 here happened such an Hurricane as threw down most of the houses in Domingo and Bona ventura destroied twenty sail of ships lifted up many men into the air who falling down again were miserably bruised Newfound-land described Newfound-land is an Island bordering upon the continent of America no farther distant than England is from the nearest part of France It lies between six and forty and three and fifty degrees of Northerly latitude It s near as big as Ireland and is near half the way between Ireland and Virginea even in winter it s as pleasant and healthful a place as England The natural Inhabitants are not many and those rude ignorant of God and living under no kinde of civil Government In their habits customes and manners they resemble the Indians which live upon the continent They are ingenious and tractable and take great pains in helping those Christians which yearly fish upon their coasts to kill cut and boil their Whales expecting nothing for their labour but a little bread or some other trifles All along the coast of this Country there are many spacious and excellent Bayes some of them stretching into the land more than twenty leagues And round about the Coast and in the Bayes there are many small Islands all within a league of the land which are both fair and fruitful neither doth any Country in the world afford greater store of good harbours nor those more safe commodious and free from danger The soil of the Country in the Vallies and sides of the Mountains is so fruitful that without the labour of man it naturally produceth great plenty of Pease and Vetches as full and wholesome as ours in England Other places produce plenty of Grass There are Strawberries red and white and Rasberries as fair and good as ours in England Multitude of Bilberries and other delicate Berries in great abundance There are also Pears Cherries Filbeards c. There are Herbs for Sallets and broth as Parsley Alexander Sorrel c. As also Flowers as Red and Damask-Roses with others beautiful and delightful both to the eye and smell There are also diverse Physical Herbs and Roots Some Corn that our men have sowed proved very good and yeelded great increase so do Cabbages Carrats Turneps Lettice c. In the Country there are great store of Deer Hares Foxes Squirrels Beavers Wolves Bears and other kindes of Beasts both for necessity profit and delight Besides great numbers of small Birds there are Hawks great and small Partridges Thrustles Nightingals c. As also Ravens Gripes Crowes c. besides plenty of water-Fowle as Geese Ducks Gulls Penguines Pigeons c. Of these there is such abundance that the Fisher-men which yearly trade thither finde great refreshing by them The Country yeelds store of Rivers and Springs pleasant delightful and wholesome together with abundance of fuel for the fire besides Timber Trees as Fir Spruce fit for Masts of ships from whence also comes abundance of Turpentine Pines also and Birch-Trees c. The Rivers and Harbours are stored with delicate Fish as Salmons Pearles Eeles Herrings Makarel Flounders Cods Trouts as large fat and sweet as any in the world Besides Lobsters Crab-fish Muscles c. There are also Beavers Otters c. The Seas along the shore yeeld Whales Spanish-Makarel Dorrel Pales Herring Porposses Seales c. Especially by their Cod-fishing both our own and other Nations are much enriched Two hundred and fifty sail of Ships go thither usually in one year from England New-Scotland described New-Scotland lyeth on the East of St. Croix on the North it s compassed with the great River Canada and hath the main Ocean on the South It hath many safe harbours and great Rivers having on the sides of them delicate medows where the earth of it self bringeth forth Roses red and white and Lillies having a dainty smell The soil is fat producing several sorts of Berries as Goos-berries Straw-berries Hind-berries Ras-berries c. as also Pease Wheat Barley and Rye The Rivers abound with Lobsters Cockles and other small fishes There are great store of wild fowle as Geese Herons Ducks Wood-cocks Pigeons The Coast hath store of Cod and other great fishes The Land is full of wood mostly of great Oaks the rest Fir-trees Spruce Birch and many other sorts here unknown Groenland described Groenland is accounted part of America and is high mountainous and full of broken Islands along the Coast It hath good Baies and navigable Rivers that are full of fish Between the mountains are pleasant plains and vallies there aâ—e store of fowle black Foxes and Deer The people wander up and down in the Summer time without fixed habitations for hunting and fishing carrying their Tents and baggage with them they are of a middle stature brown active warlike eating raw flesh or a little perboiled in blood oil or a little water which they drink Their apparrel are Beasts or Fowles skins the hairy or feathered side outward in summer and inward in winter Their Arrows and Darts have but two feathers and a bone-head no wood growes there they worship the Sun Their Winter-houses are built of Whales-bones covered with earth and vaulted two yards deep under the earth within land they have a King that is carried upon mens shoulders They have Hares as white as Snow with long fur Dogs which live on fish whose pizzels as also of the Foxes are bony Their Summer work is
of the situation of Utrecht in the Low-Countries Utrecht in the Low-Countries is so situated that one may go to what Town hee please of fifty that lye round about it in one day And in a Summers day if one go early from Utrecht he may dine at any one of twenty six Towns where he pleaseth and return to his own house to Supper Idem p. 200. Trajan built a Bridge over the River Ister or Danow containing twenty Arches each Arch being one hundred and fifty foot high sixty thick and one hundred and seventy foot distant one from another So that the whole length of it was four thousand seven hundred and seventy feet which was almost a mile long The River was very deep and swift and the bottome not firm ground neither could the stream be diverted any other way all which made the work farre more difficult and admirable Ancus Martius the fourth King of Rome built a woodden Bridge over the River Tybur yet without nails or pins so that in times of war it might be taken down Afterwards Aemilius the Consul built it of stone And Lastly Antoninus Pius the Emperor built it of Marble FINIS Soli Deo Gloria A TABLE OF THE Principal things contained IN THE Geographical part of this Book A General description of Asia Page 1. A more particular description of it Page 3. Cappadocia described Page 3. Galatia described Page 3. Pontus and Bithinia described Page 3. Paphlagonia described Page 4. Asia propria described Page 4. Phrygia major described Page 4. Phrygia minor described Page 4. Jonia described Page 5. Doris described Page 5. Pamphilia described Page 5. Armenia minor described Page 5. Canaan described Page 5. Galilee described Page 6. Samaria described Page 7. Syria described Page 12. Persian Empire described Page 14. Armenia major described Page 22. Media described Page 23. Parthia described Page 24. Hircania described Page 24. Arabia described Page 24. Tartaria described Page 25. Cyprus described Page 27. Rhodes described Page 28. Malabar described Page 28. Zeilan described Page 29. Coromandel described Page 30. Socotera described Page 31. Narsinga described Page 32. Malacca described Page 33. Siam described Page 33. Pegu described Page 35. Sumatra described Page 36. Java major described Page 36. Celebes Islands described Page 37. Molucco Islands Bandaneza's Islands Borneo Japan Page 37. China described Page 38. Industan described Page 43. Bengala described Page 49. Cambaia described Page 50. Philippine Islands described Page 50. Mauritius Island described Page 51. A general description of Affrica Page 51. Affrican Islands described Page 54. A more particular description of Affrica Page 54. Egypt described Page 54. Barbary described Page 61. Tunis described Page 62. Algier described Page 62. Fesse and Morocco described Page 63. Numidia and Libia described Page 65. Land of Negroes described Page 66. Country of the Mandingos described Page 67. Aethiopia inferior described Page 69. Aian described Zandzibar described Cafraria described Page 69. Cape of Good Hope described Page 69. Sofala described Page 71. Monomopata described Page 71. Congo or Manicongo described Page 71. Loango described Page 72. Aethiopia superior described Page 73. Islands in the Red-sea described Page 76. Madagascar described Page 77. Mohelia described Page 78. St. Hellens Island described Page 78. St. Thomas Island described Page 78. Princes Island described Page 79. Cape verde described Page 79. Maio Island described Page 79. Canary Islands described Page 80. Malta described Page 87.80 A general Description of Europe Page 81. The Islands in Europe described Page 84. Samothracia described Lemnos described Page 84. Lesbos described Chios described Euboea described Sporades described Cyclades described Crete described Page 85. Cythera described Strophades described Zant. described Echidnades described Cephalenia described Corfu described Scicily described Page 86. Corsica described Sardinia described Page 87. Majorca described Minorca described Cales described Page 88. England described Page 88. Wales described Page 106. Scotland described Page 106. Ireland described Page 108. Isle of Man described Page 111. Azores Islands described Page 111. Spain described Page 112. Portugal described Page 115. Pirenean Mountaines described Page 116. France described Page 116. The Alps described Page 121. Italy described Page 121. The Roman Triumphs described Page 129. Belgia or the Netherlands described Page 138. Germany described Page 142. Switzerland described Page 144. Bohemia described Page 146. Denmark described Page 148. Norway described Page 149. Swethland described Page 150. Muscovy described Page 151. The State of the Emperor described Page 153. The Permians and Samoeds described Page 154. Lapland described Page 154. Poland described Page 155. Hungary described Page 157. Dacia described Page 157. Sclavonia described Page 158. Greece described Page 158. Peloponesus described Page 159. Achaia described Page 160. Epirus described Albania described Macedonia described Thessaly described Page 161. Migdonia described Thracia described Page 162. The Turkish Empire described Page 166. America described Page 169. Mexico or New Spain described Page 171. Quivira described Nova Albion described Florida described Virginia described Page 172. Florida more fully described Page 173. Peruana and the Countryes therein described Page 174. Magellanick Streights described Page 180. American Islands described Page 180. Jamica described Cuba described Bermudae described Page 182. Hispaniola described Page 183. Newfound-land described Page 184. New-Scotland described Page 185. Groenland described Page 185. Spaniards cruelty to the poor Indians Page 186. Examples of the wonderful works of God in the Creatures Page 191. Of strange Stones Page 191. A moving hill Page 192. ex 8. Merlins Cave Page 192. ex 9. Earth turning wood into stone Page 192. ex 10. Wood and stones with Lozenges in them Page 193. ex 13. Stones with stars in them Page 193. ex 14.17 Burning Mountains Page 193. ex 15. Of a City petrified Page 193. Of strange Trees Hearbs Plants and Gums Page 194. Of strange Fountains Rivers and Waters Page 202. Of strange Fishes Page 207. Of strange Fowls and Birds Page 212. Of strange Beasts and Serpents Page 215. Of strange costly and stupendious works done by the Art of Man Page 221. The chiefest Cities in the World mentioned and described Cities in Asia NIce where the Council was held Page 3. Nicomedia Page 3. Apamia now Bursa Page 3· Chalcedon where a Council was held Page 3. Troy described Page 4· Cyzicus Page 4· Halicarnassus Page 5· The Chief Cities in Canaan Page 6· Hierusalem described Page 7. Nineve described Page 10. Babylon described Page 10. Tower of Babylon described Page 12. Bagdat described Page 12. Antioch described Damascus described Aleppo described Tripolis described Page 13. Scandaroon now Alexandretta Page 14. Lar described Page 15. Shyraz described Page 16. Persepolis described Spahawn described Page 17. Casbine described Page 20. Tauris described Derbent described Hyspaan described Page 21. Casan described Page 22. Callecut described Page 29. Negapatan described Page 30. Goa described Amadavar described Page 31. Ormus described Bisnagar described Mesulipatan described Page