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A49883	The world surveyed, or The famous voyages & travailes of Vincent le Blanc, or White, of Marseilles ... containing a more exact description of several parts of the world, then hath hitherto been done by any other authour : the whole work enriched with many authentick histories / originally written in French ; and faithfully rendred into English by F.B., Gent.; Voyages fameux. English	Leblanc, Vincent, 1554-ca. 1640.; Brooke, Francis.	1660 (1660)	Wing L801; ESTC R5816	408,459	466

sand and bake them therein this Abrahams Mountain is a league and a half distant from the Town and near it is scituate a village of a hundred and fifty houses or thereabouts with a Mosquee or Temple frequently called Meka stately high and built upon pillars those dayes they sacrifice they let water run through pipes at the portall wherewith they wash their feet there are no springs in those parts water being brought from other places and is extream scarce and dear and the least quantity you can drink will cost you an estere and sometimes a crown The Turks ascending this Hill throw stones in three places where are great heaps and this they say they do to spite the Devil because he endeavoured in those three places to divert Abraham from his sacrifice for they say that the Devil appeared to Isaac ascending the hill and said to him that his Father would sacrifice him Isaac made no reply and the Devil tempting Isaac the second time he threw a stone at him and from hence begun this custom of the pilgrims from thence by a little descent the pilgrims come to the Mosquee or Temple a league distant or thereabouts from the top of the Hill their heads bowed down and their armes acrosse the Cherifs deputy casts a paile of water upon their heads wetting them from top to toe which they hold a purification or expiation of their sins pronouncing these words Ala rahmani Ala ila which signifies God purifie thee next they proceed to prayers in the Mosquee or Temple which are onely made at the time they call Zilaite which is upon the three and twentieth of May and at the same time without changing their clothes they pray standing with a great modesty and when they keep their fasts they neither eat nor drink by day but they eat all the next night The Mosca or Temple of Meka is a masse of stones built round and much like St. Sophya at Constantinople you ascend unto it fifteen or sixteen steps without and round about it are built fair piazza's or galleries where the Merchants keep their Exchange and expose to sale their drugs perfumes jewels and severall other sorts of commodities in this Town is vented the richnesse of the India's and Merchants flock hither from all parts of the world they come to unlade at Ziden a Haven in the red Sea twelve leagues distant from Meka the road between Ziden and Meka is very full of Merchants they carry their merchandizes upon Camels some bound for Syria others for Egypt and from thence for Europe The Christians are not admitted into the Mosque they view it onely through the gate in disguise you are not sooner entred but you see Mahomets Tomb upon your left hand in the middle of his two Sons in law to visit it you descend three or four steps yet 't is generally believed the Tomb is empty for their Marabouts say that the Angels translated his body into heaven at the end of that side there is as 't were a little turret richly adorned where the treasure belonging to the Soudan or Governour of the Town is kept A little further within stands an altar without any figure and at each side are twelve bookes sumptuously bound all the pillars are hung with rich tapestry very faire and of lively colours but without the figure or image of any animall the Town is Governed by a Sultan or Cherif he is their Head both in Temporall and Spirituall Affaires and held in great esteeme amongst them for he gives absolution to all that visit the Mosque the sacrifice ended he uses a certain washing in lieu of Baptisme The Mosque is most gorgeously adorn'd and hung with tapistry without any Imagary worke you descend unto it eighteen or twenty steps and it is larger in compass then the Colisee at Rome Mahometans esteeme the Town Sacred as well in respect of the excellent things they say were there revealed unto their impostor Prophet as for the magnificent Temple dedicated to his name which they imagine built by the Angells visited by Adam translated into the sixth Heaven during the deluge to preserve it from the waters and since reedified by Abraham by the Modell of the former sent from Heaven they give great reverence thereunto and also to a stone called Alkible or Aliete which they adore and relate a thousand fables of it The Cherif or Sultan Governour of Meka stiles himselfe Alaman Alhascemi which signifies the Prince descended from Hascem Great Great Grandfather to Mahomet formerly he was subject to the Soudan of Aegypt and now to the Turk but in such manner as he retains a great Authority nor doth the Turke stile himself King or Lord of Meka but her humble Subject he is called also Emir that is Prince The Cherif is said to be of Mahomets race he presented and acknowledged Selinus to be the Turkish Emperour when he had conquered Egypt and abolished the Empire of Mamelus and Selinus returned him a great respect and made him the same present of a silken sheet large enough to spread over the Prophets house a present the Soldans used yearly to make they are there much vext with the continuall rovings and robberies of the Arabians Among the greatest rarities we saw in this Town were two pearls the Sultane wore in her ears the three I since saw at Lisboe which paid off sixteen thousand ducates of the Gabelle were not like them for these go beyond them both in bignesse and beauty I saw also in the Sultans Seraglio an Unicorn as since I have seen others in the India's and at the Escuriall I know many miscreants that doubt whether the world hath such a beast but besides those I have read many grave Authors that witnesse the same and Bartheme sayes he hath seen one in the very same Town of Meka I shall say something more of it in my treaty of Pegu and Canarane CHAP. VI. Of Arabia Felix of Prince Sequemir Governour of Cassia and other commodities of Sabaea WE left Meka after a short stay there and as I thought my companion would have struck into the road for Ziden towards the red Sea as he pretended to his Brother Murat and my self I wondered he left the chiefest part of his company bound for Ziden and that with the other part he took his way towards Zibit in the happy Arabia I asked him why he altered his resolution and laughing he made me this answer that the commodities he carried along with him were not his brothers as I imagined but his own and that since his brother had denied Jesus Christ he deserved them not and thought it fitter to make them his own and resolved to see the world at his charge and expenses From thence I gathered my companions inclinations since thus perfidiously he used his Brother who had trusted him yet for fear he should play me some trick I dissembled in hopes that by the grace of God I should be delivered

or falls amongst the Mountains which so compresse it that it seems a shot or lightning in quicknesse and thunder in horrid noyse till having crossed Egypt and entertained some Rivers of Nubia branching it self into many streams which compose the so much celebrated fair and fertile Countrey of Delta comes to render it self into the Mediterranean at mouthes and sluces which our Ancestors took for seven others nine at this day the most known and remarkable are those of Damiete Rosete heretofore called Heracleotique and Pelusiaque which compose the two sides of the triangle As to the surfluxes and inundations which fertilize all Egypt and serve instead of fructiferous rains from June to September laying the Countrey like an Archipelagus covered with innumerable little Islands wherein stand their habitations more excelse then the rest which is a piece of water I leave to Philosophers to search the causes who in all ages were much perplext and much divided some attributing it to the dissolving of snows from the Ethiopian mountains where snow never fell others to anniversary winds forcing the waters to remount and so overflow others with more probability to the continual rains of the torrid Zone in this season as I my self have seen it happen all along this Zone to the Indies both East and West Yea there are some who go further for a cause and will have it proceed from winds and furious tempests which at this season rage about the Cape of good Hope swelling the Sea which by certain secret Subterranian channels communicates it self with the Ethiopian Lakes which makes Nile and other Rivers taking birth from thence to surfeit But howsoever it is and whencesoever it proceeds certainly the effect is altogether admirable the encrease lasting fourty daies as likewise the decrease and some say the River Noir or Cambra or Senega do the same The course of this River from birth to dissolution is esteemed to be nine hundred leagues in right line and windings and bosomes considered to be above two thousand which is the longest course of any River in the Universe except the Plate and Maragnon in Brasile CHAP. IX Of the Town of Bagamidri and the coronation of their Kings TO return to our voyage I shal tell you that Bagamidri is a Town in Ethiopia in three degrees of altitude beyond the line in a fair champion upon the River Zuama which disbanks as Nile do's For the kingdom of Bagamidri it reaches to the Tropick watered by Zuama called by the inhabitants Zimbada which crosses the deserts of Manica where are dismal Mountains and goes til it ingulphs it self in the Oriental and Meridian sea composing a most commodious shore where vessels take in fresh-water and fuel Here are abundance of wild goats and small Buls and Cows so fierce that he must be very skilfull that takes them they have little horns which grow but skin-deep mooving them as their ears as I observed in another place This River of Zuama is by the Portugalls called Rio del Spiritu sancto for the content they receive who saile upon it Moreover in passing or bathing in this River there ought great caution to be had and to be well arm'd against the Crocodiles which are here in great numbers nor is the danger on land much lesse for the Tigars of which there are great Troupes and will very sawcily dismount you either from Horse or Mule Towards the West the Countrey borders on Mancigonge Eastward on Cafates to the North it lyes on Gidada which some call the Countrey of Amazons South-ward on Monopotapa The Town of Bagamidri is called Imperial by reason the King of Tigrai or Tigremahon having received his first Crown at the place of his election receives the second here This Ceremonie was first instituted in the time of St. Abiblicanus who lived in a cave near the Town in so high repute that the King who then reigned would have the honour to be crown'd by so great a Saint since which time there is an Ordinance that all the Kings of Tigray shal be crown'd here as the several Crowns of our Emperours were received at Aix Milan and Rome and the third he receives from the hand of the Grand Negus his Soveraign who hath onely a crown of silver whereas the King of Tigray hath his of inestimable value Here I shal tell you by the way that in Tigramahon I saw a Church of one intire piece wrought in a Rock near to Tecassin which they call the Church of Creatures for that 't is dedicated to the four Evangelists In the lower Ethiopia there is the like which they call the Maiant Calassen that is the Seat of Eternity For the Kingdome of the Amazons they report it to be betwixt the country of Damut and Gorage or Goraga and Gongara where they recount many things not unlike the stories of our Ancestors as that the women have the authority are exceeding valiant and excellent Archers that they cut off their right breast to draw a how the better with other things of that kinde There is mention made of the like women in many other parts of the world Some say the word Amazon is derived from a country belonging to the Negus or Monopotapa near Mancinconge where the women are of great courage though the men are Masters and Preste John makes use of them in his warres In this country stands the faire city Felucia or Falacia where they say is a sumptuous Tombe of a Princesse called Agagina built all of a black marble clear and transparent as glasse The people of these countries are of severall complexions according to the place that gives them breath For under the line they are neither white nor black but of a swart tawny colour though the world affords not a more temperate climate then they are under They who live Westward from the countrey of Agagne to Ambian are intirely black and four degrees from the Line troubled with excessive raines for three moneths together But they of the Province of Zembre are more white and very docile especially the women who are passably beautifull and gracefull and good Christians though they were the last that received the faith since the Eunuch baptized by Saint Philip planted it in the better part of the Provinces of Ethiope and as some will have in Arabia the happy it self and as far as Tuprobane CHAP. X. Of the Mansion of Preste John and his Justice A History upon this subject BEing at Bagamidri some of us more curious then the rest of our company agreed to go see the Court of the Grand Negus or King of the Abissins and to this purpose leaving them that had no such desire we took a side-way towards the towns Barra and Barua where we were told the Prince most commonly resided Following on this road and having crossed many Provinces and Kingdomes at length we arrived at Barra the chief town of the Country where we found a numerous multitude of people