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land_n	egypt_n	moses_n	pharaoh_n	2,863	5	10.3611	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07788	The arrivall and intertainements of the embassador, Alkaid Jaurar Ben Abdella, with his associate, Mr. Robert Blake From the High and Mighty Prince, Mulley Mahamed Sheque, Emperor of Morocco, King of Fesse, and Suss. With the ambassadors good and applauded commendations of his royall and noble entertainments in the court and the city. Also a discription of some rites, customes, and lawes of those Affrican nations. Likewise Gods exceeding mercy, and our Kings especiall grace and favour manifested in the happy redemption of three hundred and two of his Majesties poore subjects, who had beene long in miserable slavery at Salley in Barbary.	Glover, George, b. ca. 1618, engraver.	1637 (1637)	STC 18165; ESTC S112908	9,637	29

Read over the Booke of the Alcaron or Mahomets Law all over on their Good Friday at night is held unworthy of his place and Function they say their prayers six times every day and night and they doe wash themselves all over very often they have no Bells to toll them to Church but he that is the Clarke or Sexton hath a deepe base great voyce and goes to the top of the Steeple and there roares out a warning for the people to come to their Devotions No man doth enter their Churches with his shooes on their Talbies or Priests each one of them are allowed a Wife or Wives if they will The Lay-men may have Captive women but they must not lye with them in the night-time for that belongs to the Wives by turne and if any wife be beguiled of her turne she may complaine for satisfaction to the Magistrate he that hath foure wives must be a Rich man a poore man is allowed as many but his meanes are too short to keepe them therefore one or two must serve his turne The Bride and Bridegroome doe never see each other before the Wedding-night that they are going to bed where if he finde her a Maid all is well if otherwise hee may turne her away and give her no part of the portion she brought him As concerning their Burials if any one doth dye they doe wash the Corps all over and by reason the Countrey is extreame hot they cannot keep them above ground with all speed they send for the Friends or Kinred of the party deceased and carry the dead out of their Townes or Citties to a place appointed for that use for none are buried in their Churches or Synagogues or within their Townes and there the Talby sayes a short Prayer and then the Corps is interred They have a custome to speake in praise of vertuous persons departed to encourage and animate taken with false weights or measures doth lose all his Ware in his house to the use of the poore and is a defamed person and cruelly whipt Their Execution for life and death is that commonly the person adiudged to die hath his throat cut by the Executioner And these are part of the Religion Lawes and Manners of the people of Morocco Fesse and Sus and I doe wish they were all inspired with Holinesse from God for I am sure they doe surpasse many Christians in Righteousnesse and iust dealing towards men In Affrica there are many Nations Kingdoms and Provinces many parts whereof are inhabited by Christians as Spaniards and Portugalls Aethiopia is a great tract of Land in the South part of Affricke it hath many Kingdomes in it over whom as Chiefe Ruler is Prester John He is Emperor of Aethiopia or of the Abassines he is a Christian and so are his people but withall they are all Circumcised The Evnuch whom Philip the Evangelist converted was Governour of Aethiopia and chiefe Treasurer under Candaces the Queene then Reigning there Acts 8. Egypt now under the Turke is another part of Affrica in that Land the Israelites were in bondage whom God delivered by the hand of Moses it is bounded on the East with the Red Sea wherein Pharaoh and all his Host were drown'd Also the Kingdomes of Gaogan Nubia Dangaly Doba Gansila Dasila Barnagasso Doara Balli Angola Numidia Guiney or Binney Bizarchus Triptoletana Mauritaunia Cesariensis Mauritaunia Sitiphensis Tingitania Congo far to the South Carthage neare where Tunis stands famous for Dido and Hanniball Hippon more famous for being the the Bishops Sea of the renowned and blessed Lampe of light and Learning Saint Augustine and Utica where the admired Roman Cato Uticensis did enrich them with his Venerable bones And in some parts of Affrica the people doe use to eate three whole daies together and are in all things obedient to their Wives or Concubines Moreover they never suffer any of their Daughters to be married except she or they have first slaine with her owne hand by Policy one of their Enemies this they doe observe from the Tartarians In other parts of this Countrey they doe honour their Women more than their men and they take their Sur-names of their Mother and not of their Father and they leave their Daughters to be their Heires and inheritors of their Lands and not their sons And in some places many have beene punished and some banished because they have kissed their Wives in the presence of their Children or Daughters but at the least they have beene fined to their Governour many Duckets for this offence Their Lawes command that men accustomed to wickednesse and viciousnesse should be cut off without being spared or concealed and that they which were attainted and convinced as guilty of any crime should never escape without some punishment or other Affrica is that part of the World that doth produce most Wonders Monsters strange Beasts Fowles and Serpents For Monsters it is said that there are a people called Aramaspians with one eye in the Fore-head some with their Feete naturally growing backward some with heads like Dogges some with long tailes some with but one legge that doe hop very swift and are called Sciopedi who with the shaddow of the foote as they lye on their backs doe defend their whole bodies from the violent heate of the Sunne some without Heads with Eyes in their shoulders some Satyres halfe men and halfe Goates some with no Noses but flat-fac'd with holes to breath at some with legges as limber and pliable as Lamparnes without bones who doe creepe and crawle Some with eares so great that they cover the whole body and that in Aethiopia there are some men that are 8. Cubits or 4. Yards high let the Reader beleeve as much of this as he list but I am perswaded that many of these things are true or else so many Grave and approved Authors would never have written of them and divulg'd them to the World Also in Affrica are store of Elephants Tigers Lyons Buffles Panthers Leopards Cammells Rhinoceros Lynces Musk kats Onces Elkes Porcupines Dragons Serpents Crocodiles Ichneumons the Hiena Vipers the Basiliske the Chamelion the Sallamander Tarentalaes and Scollapendraes Vultures Eagles Ostriches Osprayes the Bird of Paradise that is almost all tayle with many other too long to recite so that those parts of the World doe breed and produce more venemous Beasts and vermine and strange Rarities of Nature than all Europe Asia and America And thus having briefly related the Religions Manners Rites Lawes and Ceremonies of some of the Dominions of Affrica as Barbary Morocco Fesse and Sus I hope it will satisfie any indifferent Reader To name all were too tedious and impossible and therefore those that will have more ample Description let them get the credit to borrow or the Ability to buy larger Volumes Imprimatur Sa. Baker Novemb. 27. 1637. FINIS