'Some years travels into divers parts of Africa, and Asia the great. Describing more particularly the empires of Persia and Industan: interwoven with such remarkable occurrences as hapned in those parts during these later times. As also, many other rich and famous kingdoms in the oriental India, with the isles adjacent. Severally relating their religion, language, customs and habit: as also proper observations concerning them.' [‎13] (34/448)

that fome Whales in the/wL Ocean haveTmeaSfb^fc^
Cubits long. lam even alham'd tofay how maT Thofe we &w T* ^ ndr ^
could not be lefsthan threefcore foot from Head to Tail the HeaH lH In ' 1 1
fourth, the Mouth little lefs than ten CSt 1
Eye s no bigger than an Apple ■, the Body is thick and roimdf wh^hd?e SaySseat W
Merchants covetthem rather for profit, one ufually giving twelve tun of •'
tab'W forth they hare b« . Bfc,
wSs' S£lr&, :" ,ch r ^ ^
lyrejededby Kmgy^ 2 . t*m S d, from this conlideration, that inprofea ing
SnquSeJ 2 VOyaSeS ^ attained this ^ half way and greatell dinger 1
towa^dfthe'lhore thf Land'L 7 lo°v™nd b frukfS 'STmil, afFor h ds | oodanchor ag e i
bLncfircanMtheTa^^rnokfh-l T ^ MounS wSroTksS
near whkh is Mother or m S | h ' h'f ^ "^oufand eight hundred and fixty feet i
the S^r-loaf ^ ra thp orhp^r!) w ? lc l f 5? in . lts fharpnefs at the top Men ufually caU
Mounc fiom the Mn of anv r.f i, t k* 5 Table another Hill call'd Herbem
sW tenci, no s. „ i ™
lav ! ^b^ 66 Promontories are feparated from each other bylar'e
Pays, but the two laib found inconvenient to anchor in; diftantthey be from oifeano!
ther io miles ^.and S. on all fides faveto the Sea invironed with Mountains w"ich
furgefo high ns that they penetrate the middle Region. To the Table lately mendoned
Seamen for their recreation ordinarily climb up, the afcent (the height confidwed fnot
being uneafie, buttheProfped (being once up; fully compenfetes the labour "for from
thence into thatCountry where higher Hills do not anticipate, is a very noble view and
pleafant 7 and into the Ocean we could fee i5o miles and uowards u • u
J tall tamoll rw« „,d „holtae „„ CSfi'r T5ble ,n |KSr»S
after fo long being at Sea was a great refrelhing to our fcorcht Intrai k Now ,
and others hold that Water hath no Nutritive quality in it felf in regard of its coldnefrfet
camt not bedenyed that it is fo neceffiiry an Ingredient in order to nourilhment. that of
all Liquors it is by Philofophers filled the molt precious. For from the Creation to
Flood it was the only Drink the God of Nature appointed for the refrelhment of
Man and Bealt, Yea the ancient Romans for full 500 yearsafterthe building of
u A ^d then the age and vigour of Men were much more, than when Wine and
other ftrong Drinks brought with them intemperance, which with luxurious Dvet de-
lighted, yet weakned, Nature, To the North of m duke ('twixt which are two pretty
riling Hi Is, by Capt. Fttz.-Herbert y called King James and King Charles's Mounts, and in
Whole behalf he laid claim unto that Country) fuch as land here for refrelhment ufuallv
pitch their Tents: about half a league thence is a broader ftream, but fo ihaliow ( nea^
tiie Bay ) as is not Navigable: the P ortuguife call it rio de Jaquelma, which when I tailed
was brackilh, and inlalubrious *, but'tvvixt the two other Capes is a larger ftream, which
Iprmgs, as fome fay, from thofe Mountains of the Moon, fuppofed under the South Tro-
pique, but how truly I know not.
. ( of which this is part) is a Pemafnla, where that Ifihmm of 20 leagues divides
the Red trom the^rmdland Sea, This great Continent which the /Equinoctial parts in two,
and Homer well diftinguilhes by intra & extra, is by others into Major and Minor j either
or which is well nigh as big as Europe. In length it runs North and South from Ttngier
(aOty m the mouth of the5/m>xof (7# heretofore call'd Julia tradufta and Timti
Ctfaria, whence that part of Mauritania is called Tingitana ) to this Promontory de bond
Speranza'-f the firft being in 3 5 d. 50 m, North, the other in 34^ South latitude, com
puted 4200 Englilh miles, and the greateft breadth (from Cape Verd upon the AtUtU