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A90869	A compendious view, or Cosmographical, and geographical description of the whole world. With more plain general rules, touching the use of the globe, then bave been yet published. Wherein is shewed the situation of the several countries, and islands: their particular governments, manners, commodities, and religions. Also a chronology of the most eminent persons, and things that have been since the creation, to this present: wherein you have a brief of the gospel, or a plain, and easie table, directing readily where to find the several things, that were taught, spoke, done and suffered, by Jesus Christ, throughout the said gospel. The which is not onely pleasant, and delightful; but very useful, and profitable; for all. But cheifly for those who want, either time, to read, or money to buy, many books. / By Tho. Porter.	Porter, Thomas, fl. 1654-1668.	1659 (1659)	Wing P2998A; Thomason E1863_2; ESTC R210226	74,944	154

Cattle but the breed is lesse then in England except Grayhounds The People I mean the Irish are strong nimble haughty greedy of glory patient in Cold and Hunger careless of their lives and leight of belief much addicted to Customs one whereof is That they kneel down to the Moon desiring her to leave them in as good health as she found them One of the many Rarities I will recite is 3 Lakes in the Country of Meath not far a sunder and have an intercourse of Waters but of so different natures that the Fish which are proper to the one will not live in the other Their Government is by one supreme Magistrate called the Lord Deputy the profit of the Custom is said to amount to 30000 li. yearly From hence are sent Rugs Mantles Honey Herrings c. And in brief Nature hath inriched it beyond most others SCOTLAND is surrounded with the Sea on all sides except on the South where it is separated from England by the Rivers of Solway and Tweed It is divided into the High-lands and Low-lands Northern and Southern for the most part especially the North it is so barren that it is hardly able to afford sustenance for the people were they not patient in hunger and want Nor hath it much Fruit nor many Trees the people for the most part holding the Land at the Will of their Landlord and so not encouraged to plant Their chief Commodities are coorse Cloth Hides Malt Fish and Sea-Coal WALES is encompassed with the Sea except towards England from which it was anciently divided by the River Wy and a Line drawn to the River Dee The whole Countrey is mountainous and barren scarce able to maintain the people but that its defect is helped by some Silver Mines which were of late found out It hath many Rivers which afford good store of Fish Their Commodities are Frizes and Cottons the People much given to passion but soon appeased The Isles belonging to Great Brittain are the Sorlings Garnsey Jersey Wight Orcades Hebrides Man Anglesey and many others as you may see in that new Map of England Scotland and Ireland called The Plain Man's Map to which we will refer you SPAIN is bounded on the East with the Mediterranean Sea on the West with Portugal and the Atlantick Ocean on the South with the Straights of Gibralter and on the North with the Cantabrian Sea and some part of France The Air is very clear and calm The People are said to descend from Goths Moors and Jews They are proud melancholy superstitious conceited of themselves great braggers very much given to Women and are exceeding jealous of their Wives The Women are sober and loving both to their Husbands and Friends The Soyl for the most part is over-grown with Woods and is very mountainous or of so hot a nature and sandy as not fit for Tillage and by reason of the scarcity of Water it is unfit for Pasture Yet in some places it is as fruitful as any part of Europe Their Religion for a long time hath been that of Rome for such is the cruelty of their persecuting Inquisition that some that are Papists withstand it to the death They are by some reckoned for good Souldiers not for their valour but because they are able to endure hardship Their Commodities are Orenges Lemmons Marble Honey and some Mines of Gold and Silver PORTUGAL is bounded on the West South with the Atlantick Sea on the East and North with Spain The Soyl is hilly and bare of Corn the Air healthy the People more simple and plain of beheaviour than the Spaniard for Religion they are Papists good Seafaring-men and happy in discovering of Foreign Countries Herein are divers Rivers of which Nitinius is none of the least for it is said to be Navigable with small Vessels near 100 miles and is full of Red-Lead Their chief Commodities are Oyl Wine Allom Honey Salt-Fish Silk Marble Fruit and some Mines of Silver This as well as the Low-Counrries did once belong to the King of Spain FRANCE is bounded on the East with some part of the Low-Countries Germany and Italy On the West with the cantabrian Sea and some part of Spain On the South with the Mediterranean Sea and on the North with the Brittish Sea It is very fruitful in Wine Salt Beeves Corn Prunes Woods Nuts Coral Skins Canvas Sisers Cards and most kind of Mercery Ware Having many illustrious Cities exceedingly well peopled as Paris Roan and others Neither can it be wanting in Fish for besides the Seas here are many Rivers Ponds and Lakes The People are said to be hot of nature leight of carriage curious of Palate and therefore not able to endure hardship and so by consequence not good Souldiers but for a spir● only The Women generally are straight of body and personable but somewhat enclining to swarfiness The condition of the common people is miserable for that they have great and uncertain Rests set by the Landlords for the Husbandman is Tenant at their Will and because they have great Taxes laid upon them The Christian Religion is said to be first planted here by some of St. Peter's Disciples but at this time they are accounted Papists yet are they divided for in the year 1560. there were said to be 1250 Protestant Churches and it is conceived that they are much increased notwithstanding the Massacres they have suffered ITALY is bounded on all sides with the Sea except some part where it bordereth on France and on the North where it is separated by the Mountains called the Alpes from Germany It is as pleasant and fruitful a Countrey as any in Europe and yields not onely Wine and Corn but Silks Sattens Velvets Grograins Rash Bombasus Taffeties Wire of gold and silver Allum Galls Drinking and Looking-Glasses of Venice The people are witty but deceitful malicious hot and lascivious in their Houses sumptuous at Table neat in expences thrifty and civil of carriage unless to their Wives of whom they are extream jealous and haply not without cause and will permit them liberty of Discourse with few or none though they are said to be outwardly modest but the Proverb is That they are Magpies at the Door Saints in the Church Angels in the Streets Goats in the Garden Sirens in the Windows and Devils in the House Most of them use painting most wickedly saying That if God make them tall and plump they will make themselves fair The Language of both Sex is very courtly and fluent They have twice given Laws to the powerful part of the then known World once by their Valour and once by their Wit By which last they have subjected great part of Christendom to the Pope And as their Language is much changed so is their Religion for as some say the Gospel was first preached here by St. Peter and as others say by St. Paul but one quaering the truth hereof thus saith That Simon Peter was at Rome who knows That Simon

if touched will shrink again into the Earth This is affirmed by some who say they have been Eye-witnesses and have touched some of the Rising-Members which if true is a Lecture of the certain Resurrection of the whole body that once a year is preached to these people The Inhabitants are of a tawny complexion and wit●y for to them we are indebted for the Invention of w●i●ing on Paper Physick Arithmetick Astronomy and Astrology But now they are greedy of Profit luxurious crafty cowardly and were the first who were given to Sorcery Their Women are exceeding fruitful some of them having 3 or 4 Children at a Birth The Gospel was first preached here by S. Mark as is granted by the best Historians but by the coming in of the Saracens and chiefly since the Turks Conquest the Christians have much decayed and those that remain are Jacobites of whom you have something in our Description of Asia Barbary is bounded on the East with Aegypt on the West with the Atlantick Ocean on the South with Mount Atlas and on the North with the Mediterranean Sea It hath many Hills well stored with Woods an● therefore here is no want of Wild-Beasts but they have scarce any Wheat so that the people live on Barley-bread yet that part near Mount Atlas hath many Rivers which arise from the aforesaid Mountain that do water it And it is stored with Sugar Oyl Honey some Mines of the best Gold all sorts of Apples Peaches Apricocks Figs Cherries and Pears And besides their beautiful Horses and other Cattle here are Leopards Lions Dragons and Apes in great plenty The people are inclining to blackness covetous of honour crafty unfaithful not willing to take pains studious in matters of their Law and some of the Liberal Sciences exceeding jealous of their Wives who have good features and comely bodies which they apparel most bravely thereby to make themselves more lovely in their Husbands eyes The Gospel was first preached here by Eutychus one of the 70 Disciples in Africa propria and in other parts by others But now Mahometism is wholly embraced so that there are no Christians except in some few Towns possessed by the Spaniards and Portugals This Countrey contains these 4 Kingdoms 1. Morocco 2. Fez. 3. Tremesin or Algiers And 4. Tunis The first of which hath a Church in the chief Town thereof a mile and half in compa●s and a Tower so high that as some affirm you may discern from the top of it the Hills of Azasi And here is also a Castle of great Fame for the Globes of pure Gold that stand on the top of it which are reported to weigh 130000 Barbary Duckets if my Author be not mistaken The Istes of Barbary in the Mediterranean Sea 1. Zerby is something Hilly in the middle but indifferent fruitful affording Dates Olives and the like 2. Chercheny formerly so fruitful that it was able to supply the wants of Caesar and his Army when he was wearied in Africa 3. Pantalaria whose Soil is not fit for Corn because both mountainous and stony yet well stored with Cotton Figs and Oxen without Horns 4. Malta anciently Melita as appears Act. 28. 1. for it was the place where St. Paul and those that were with him in the shipwrack got to Land It affords good store of Cotton Citrons Melons Pomgranates and such kind of Fruits Their Religion is that of the Church of Rome Numidia is bounded on the East with Egypt on the West with the Atlantick Ocean on the South with Lybia and on the North with Mount Atlas which parts it from Barbary It contains these 10 Provinces namely 1. Fessen 2. Tebelbeti 3. Zeb 4. Segelmesse 5. Talset 6. Bileduldgerid 7. Tegoida 8. Pes●ara 9. Fighid 10. Dara The people are Thieves and Murderers except the Arabians who are in mo●t parts mingled amongst them ●hose character you have in Asia it being their proper place and therefore we speak here only of the Natural Numidians whose food commonly is Dates Barley and ●ome say Carrion Their Garments are very short and the richer sort are distinguished with a blew Jacket of Cotton They ride on Camels without Saddles or stirrups a Leather being only put through a hole that is made in the Nose of the Beast The Air is said to be so sound that it cures the French Pox ●peedily without the help of Physick In matters of Religion they are Mahometans Lybia Desart is bounded on the East with the River Nilus on the West with the Atlantick on the South with the Land of Negroes and on the North with Numidia It is divided into five Provinces or great Desarts to which the rest of lesse nore are to be referred namely 1 Bordea 2 Lembta 3 Zuenzigae 4 Targa And 5 Zanhaga This Countrey is by some counted a part of Numidiae and indeed the people are as bad or rather worse then they It is a dry and sandy Countrey for in some parts it affords not water to a Traveller in seven dayes journey and therefore the Merchants are fain to carry water with them on Camels backs and if that fail they kill the Beasts and squeese water out of their guts The water which the Countrey affords is drawn out of Pits and is exceeding brackish and those Pits are sometimes so covered with Sand that men die with thirst And therefore the Land is not much inhabited so that it is fitly called Desart Terra Nigritarum or the Land of Negroes is bounded on the East with Nilus which divides it from Ethiopia Superior on the West with the Atlantick Ocean on the South with the Ethiopick Ocean and some part of Ethiopia Inferior and on the North with Lybia It contains 25 several Kingdoms namely 1 Guinea 2 Benin 3 Guangara 4 Ora Enterosa 5 Gualata 6 Gialosofi 7 Gubar 8 Ghenehoa 9 Melli 10 Sanaga 11 Casena 12 Cano 13 Agadez 14 Gambra 15 Tombu●um 16 Bornum 17 Gaoga 18 Nubia The rest of lesse note besides ●hose in Guinea are 19 Temiano 20 Zegzeg 21 Bico 22 Zanfara 23 Medra 24 Gothan And 25 Daum The whole Countrey is very hot because situated in the hot of scorched Zone but is indifferently well inhabited and very fruitful especially where the River Niger overflowes enriched with Mines of Gold and Silver and on the further side of the River Senega well stored with Corn Cattle and Woods wherein are Lions Elephants and other Wild-Beasts The people are Cele-black except those in the South part and use to paint the Devil white thereby declaring their love to their own Complexion They are destitute of Arts and Sciences and most abominably prone to luxury The greater part are Idolaters mixt with some Mahometans which I cannot say are much better only there are a few Christians in those Garrisons that belong to the Portugals And as the people differ in Religion if I may so call it so do they in their Language as well they may in so great a compass of ground wherein

  7 F   8 E D 9 C   70 B   1 A   2 G F 3 E   4 D   5 C   6 B A 7 G   8 F   9 E   80 D C 1 B   2 A   3 G   4 F E 5 D   1686 C   year it declareth that year to be Leap-year Note When you come to the year 1686 which is the last year in the Table you must begin again and must call the year 1659. 1687. and so continue the Table for ever The use of the perpetual Almanack HAving by the former directions found the Sunday letter look in the Almanack what day of the week standeth under that letter for that is the day of the week representeth by the figures under every moneth Example 1659 the Sunday letter is B under which is Friday therefore the figures 18. 15. 22. 29. which stand under April and July doe represent the Fridayes of those moneths so likewise the figures 4. 11. 18. 25. which stand under March November and February do represent the Fridays in those moneths and so of the rest And the Fridayes in every moneth of the year being thus discovered the other dayes are easily known for if the fourth of March or the first moneth be Friday the fifth must be Saterday the 6th Sunday the 7th Munday the 8th Tuesday c. Onely Note that if it be Leap-year there are two Sunday letters each of which will give you a several day as in the year 1660 the Sunday letters are A G the letter gives me Saturday which serves for January and February and G gives me Sunday which serveth for all the year after A Definition Explanation and Description of several Names or Terms of Water and Land THe Terrestrial or Eartly Globe is defined to be a Spherical or round Body proportionably composed of Earth and Water A Figure of which you have expressed at a corner of the Map The Earth is first to be considered and is affirmed by the latest best and most ●●arned Writers to be in compasse 21600 English 〈◊〉 and plainly appears thus Every of the greater Circles contein 360 degrees every degree being accounted 60 English miles let 360 be multiplyed by 60 and the sum or product will be 21600 as was aforesaid The Earth is divided into real and imaginary parts and these usually and commonly into Continents and Islands A Continent is a great quantity of Land not separated or enterlaced by any Sea from other parts of the World in which are conteined many Countries or Kingdoms as Europe Asia or as the Countryes of France Germany Tartary or the like An Island is a part of Land environed or encompassed round about with Water as England and Scotland together or as Ireland alone And these are subdivided or again divided into Peninsula's Isthmus and Promontories A Peninsula is almost an Island that is to say a Tract or part of Land which is but almost encompassed with Water being joyned to the firm Land by some little part of Land or Isthmus as Morea in Greece c. An Isthmus is a little narrow neck of Land which joyneth any Peninsula to the Continent as the straights of Corinth in Greece and Dariena in America A Promontory is a high Mountain which shooteth it self into the Sea the utmost end of which is called a Foreland or Cape as the Cape of Good-hope Cape Verde in Africa and St. Michaels Mount in England There are also other real parts of the Earth as Plains Vallayes Hills Woods and the like but these are so well known by every one that they need no explanation The second real part of the Globe is Water which is divided into Ocean Sea a Straight a Creek or Bay and Lake 1 The Ocean is a general collection of Water which environeth or encompasseth the Earth on every side 2. The Sea is a part of the Ocean to which we cannot come but through some straight as the Mediterraneum sea the Black-sea the Red-sea c. Now it is plain and certain that divers and sundry names have been given to the Sea as well as to the Earth taken either from the Contries and places adjoyning to or watered by it as the Brittish-sea the Spanish-sea the Indian-sea c. or from the divers Climates Situation or parts of the World from whence came the North-sea the East-sea the West-sea the South-sea Mare del Nort Mare del Zur The Sea which floweth between Europe Africa and Asia is called the Mederiterraneum or Mid-land Sea because it lyeth as it were between the aforesaid places She hath sometimes her name from the colour as the Red-sea which also called Arabian Gulf not that the Water is red but the Red sand which lyeth under it make it to appear so Moreover it takes its name oftentimes from the nature effects and events of things as appears in that which did be fal the Spaniard in the Sea between Spain and the Canaries or fortunate Islands for they carrying over a great company of Mares to put in the places they had taken which were destitnte of them that they might there increase and multiply and because by tempest they were drowned in the Sea they called it the Gulf of Mares About the North-pole it is called the frozen Sea because it is there almost alwayes frozen 3. A Straight is a part of the Ocean restrained within narrow bounds and opening a way to the sea as the Straights of Gibralter and the Straights of Magellaniea 4. A Creek or Bay is a crooked shore thrusting out as it were two arms to embrace the sea as the Corinthian and Persian Creeks also Button's and Hudson's Bay 5. A Lake is a great Collection or gathering of Water which hath no visible entercourse with the sea as the Lake of Lough-Neauh in Ireland the Dead-sea in the Land of Canaan and the Caspian-sea though by reason of the bigness of the two last they are called seas And hereunto belong Rivers Brooks and the like which are so well known by every man that we will pass them over without more ado Of the flowing and ebbing of the Sea You must know that it is not always alike for in divers places it doth encrease for the space of 6 whole hours and decrease as many but in the Promontory of Erithrem in Africa commonly called Cabo Rosso it increaseth 4 hours and decreaseth 8. In divers places it keeps alwayes at one state without ebbing or flowing And so at the Cape called Das Palmas it runs still towards the East although by vertue of the first mobile or chief moveable and of the Moon the whole Sea seems to move towards the West Notwithstanding when by interposition of the Earth she is hindred from her natural course it cometh to pass that her course is variable not onely in the aforesaid places but also in many others For the same cause it is that about Florida the Sea runs still towards the North without any return and

parallels which are called Artificial Parallels for that they shew the difference of Artificial Dayes the use of which is to shew the Climates Of Climates A Climate is a space of Earth included within two of the Artificial or lesser parallels and are declared and set forth in the Circumference of the Eastern Planisphere of the Map The use thereof is to shew the length and shortnesse of the Day in all the several parts of the World Now under the Equinoctial line and 10 Degrees on North and as many on the South-side thereof the dayes exceed not the length of 12 hours but afterwards they increase the length of half an hour in every Clime till they come to 24 hours without night and are so marked shewed or declared as you may see in the utmost Circumference of the Map which length atteined they increase no more by hours but by weeks and moneths until they come to the length of half a year so as there are two sorts of Climates that is to say 24 North and as many South from the Equator touching the names of which we will refer you to larger Volumes and discourses By which it appears that they who dwell under the same Latitude of the Poles have the same length of day and night But to them on the South of the Equator the day is shortest then with us on the North it is at the longest and our Winter is their Summer and so contrariwise their Winter is our Summer c. Of the Tropicks The Tropick of Cancer or the Crab is a Circle or rather for distinction a double Circle or Line which is distant from the Equinoctial or middle Lines towards the North about 23 degrees and a half Now when the Sun is come thither which is on the 11th of June then is the day longest with us who live on the North of the Equator and shortest to them on the South thereof This Line passeth through New Spain Arabia and India The Tropick of Capricorn is a like Circle to that of Cancer and is distant from the Equator 23 degrees and a half towards the South being just as much as Cancer is towards the North when the Sun is gone down thither which on the 12 or 13 of Decemb. then are the dayes shortest with us who dwell on the North and longest with them who dwell on the South thereof This Line passeth through Ethiopia the Lower and Peru. The Arctick or North-Polar Circle is a like Line or Circle as the Tropick of Cancer and it is distant from the North Pole 23 degrees and a half It passeth through Tartary Norway Greenland and some part of the unknown Land as you may see in the Map The Antarctick or South Polar Circle is a like Line or Circle to the North Polar Circle and is distant from the South Pole 23 degrees and about a half being just so much as the North-polar Circle is distant from the North-pole and passeth through the South unknown Land Of Zones Now the use of these four Circles of Cancer Capricorn the Arctick and Antarctick are to shew the five parts called Zones whereof there are two temperate the one North the other South two frozen or cold one of them also North and the other South and one hot or scorched The North temperate Zone is that part or space conteined between the Tropick of Cancer and the North-Polar Circle The South temperate Zone is that space contained between the Tropick of Capricorn and the South-polar Circle They are called temperate because the Air thereof is more moderate and of a better temper being neither so very hot as the scorched Zone nor so extream cold as the frozen Zones The torrid burnt or hot Zone is that space conteined between the two Tropicks of Cancer and Capricorn and is continually scorched with the Sun which doth alwayes pass over it afflicting it with a marvellous heat and down-right Rays the breadth hereof comprehendeth 47 degrees or 2820 miles every degree being 60 miles as hath been said already The North Frigid frozen or cold Zone is that space conteined within the Arctick or North-Polar Circle the breadth whereof from the very Pole it self is 23 degrees and a half which is 1410 miles The South frigid frozen or cold Zone is that space or part between the Antarctick or South Polar Circle and hath the same breadth as the North Frozen Zone hath from the North-Pole namely 23 degrees and a half or 1410 miles The Division of the World The World is commonly divided into the known and unknown parts the latter whereof we will pass by forasmuch as time and opportunity hath not discovered it and onely refer you to the Map by which you may see that it lyeth towards the Poles but chiefly towards the South-pole The known World is divided into these four parts EUROPE ASIA AFRICA AMERICA and each of these conteine several Countries and Islands EUROPE Contains England Ireland Scotland and their Isles Spain Portugal France Italy Germany Holland Denmark and Norway Swedland Poland Hungary Slavonia Transilvania Greece Dacia Russia and their Isles ASIA Contains Natolia Syria Palestine Arabia Caldea Assyria Mesopotamia Turcomania Media Persia Tartary Shiria India and many Islands AFRICA Comprehends Egypt Barbary Numidia Libia the land of Negroes upper and lower Ethiopia with divers Islands AMERICA Or the New World not to speak of it as some divide it into North and South for by the Map you may see how it lies the several Countries comprehended therein are Estotiland Terra Corterealis Canada New Scotland Norumbega New England New Netherland Virginia Florida New Albion New Spain Guatimalia Golden Castile Paria Guiana New Granada Peru Chile Paragnay Brasile and many Islands as Hispaniola Cuba Jamaica and divers others as you will find in their proper place Of the Winde It is a hot and dry Exhalation drawn into the air by the power of the Sun and by reason of the weight thereof being driven down is carried side-long about the Earth but this must be understood of general windes which blow over all the Earth or at the least some great Countries For there are a second sort of winds which are peculiar onely to some Countries and those not very large which are begot on this manner It is confessed that in the Globe of the Earth there are wonderful holes wherein when air aboundeth and cannot abide to be shut up findeth some little hole or as it were a mouth to breathe or break out at In or about those Countries bloweth vehemently but that force extendeth not far for it is like wind that cometh out of Bellows This winde therefore differeth from the general winds both in substance and quality for the matter of them is an exhalation and the quality such as the nature of the exhalation very airy but not indeed air There is also a third sort of wind which is a gentle and cool moving of the air coming from no certain place yet is felt

of the fixed Stars commonly called The Starry Firmament and performeth his motion in 7000 years 9 Is called The Christalline Heaven or 2 moveable his motion is almost immensible and is called The trembling Motion and is said to be performed by later Astronomers in 49000 yeares 10 Is called The first moveable Heaven conteining the rest within it and removing from the East to the West carrieth about with it inviolably all the other Spheres whose motion is contrary from the West to the East and do differ much in their motion as you may see by what hath been said The 11. is called The Imperial or highest Heaven where God and his Angels are said to dwell Of the Eclipse The word Eclipse is as much as to say want of light as when a thing is darkned or hid from our sight Of the Eclipse of the SUN The SUN is said to be eclipsed when the Moon commeth directly between the Sun and the Earth or our sight And the reason why we have not an Eclipse of the Sun every new Moon is because the Moons latitude carries her beyond the Bounds in which an Eclipse happens that is when she is somewhat far distant from the Head and Tail of the Dragon Of the MOON 's Eclipse The MOON is said to be eclipsed when the dark Body of the Earth comes directly between the Sun and Moon and so hindreth the Beams of the Sun from the Moon and thus the Eclipses of the Sun and Moon are caused as by the Figures thereof at the lower end of this Map doth appear Of the effects of the Eclipses When there happens an Eclipse of the Sun or Moon if Mars shall be Ruler thereof he signifies house-burnings and quarrels c. If Saturn be Ruler thereof he signifies overflowing of Water Earth-quakes Famine and dangerous diseases If Venus or Jupiter are Rulers they signifie plenty of all things Hermes saith If there happen two Eclipses in one moneth they signifie many troubles and controversies But we must not be over-curious in the search nor too confident in the event of things For that secret things belong unto the Lord and revealed unto us Deut. 29. 29. Of the Blasing Stars or Comets They are flames drawn into the higher parts of the Aire which come by driness and long quietness in the Air and signifie corruption in the Aire to follow and are either signes of Earth-quakes and dearth of Corn or Wars and dearth There hapned one in the year 1618 from the 18 of November to the 16 of December following it was seen all over Europe Of the Firmaments and Constellations The two Hemispheres in the middle of the Map one above and another below filled with shapes or pictures of men beasts birds fish and the like embost with Stars to shew the names of the several Stars and other things to large for present discourse and hard to be understood by ordinary capacities A View of EUROPE or as we may call it The Christian World because all the Kings and Rulers thereof do not onely allow but profess the same EUROPE bounded as in the Map is shewed and expressed though it be the least being but 2800 miles in length in breadth 1200 yet doth it carry the name of the most happy part of all the World for Her plenty of Grain Cattel Fruits Rivers and Fountains of most excellent vertue being also richly furnished with beautiful Cities Castles Houses and men very expert in Arts and Sciences She wants nothing but what she may well spare as precious Jewels which have brought in vain and useless Pride and Wild-Beasts which cause Desarts in the place where they breed Yet of Silver Gold and other Mettals she hath her share It was first inhabited by the Sons of Japheth as is granted by the best Historians But we shall more fully describe it in Her several Countries ENGLAND not to spend time to shew how it hath had its alterations and changes of Government as well as others is bounded on the East with the German Ocean on the West with the Irish Sea on the South with the British Sea and on the North with the Rivers of Tweed and Solway It is situated in a sweet temperate and wholsom Air and is exceeding fruitful in Wheat and other Grain and hath not only many pleasant Valleys furnished with goodly Rivers plentifully stored with Fish but divers Hills on which are fed innumerable Flocks of Sheep bearing fine Wooll of which is made Cloth which serves not onely themselves but is also transported into other Parts The Men are brave Warriours both by Sea and Land as the Scots Irish and French formerly and the Dutch of late have felt Neither have the Spaniards fared much better then the rest for they sent John of Gaunt home with 8 Wagons laden with Gold and he was to have an Yearly Pension of 10000 Marks The Women are not inferiour to if not before any other Parts and they have been of high esteem amongst Foreign Nations for their modesty though of late much addicted to the light garb of the French and as they are the handsomest so are their priviledges the greatest of any for it is a by-word with the Italians That if there were a Bridge made over the narrow Seas all the Women of Europe would run into England for here they have the upper-end at the Table the upper-hand in the streets the thirds of their Husbands Estates and in a word it is a Paradise for Women And although their Nobles are many yet their Powers are limited The whole Land is divided into 40 Shires and those have 6 Judges for the ending of Controversies two whereof are to administer Justice in the chief Town of every Shire twice a year And although it had but two Universities yet they exceed ten of most other Countries The Revenues hereof in Henry the 7. time were said to be 40000 Crowns yearly and improved by Henry the 8th to a Million more The Gospel was first preached here by Joseph of Arimathea which they do still profess and in a good degree keep to though there be many who differ in Opinion Their Religion at the present is called Independency because they give liberty of Conscience but the Government Presbyterial From hence is not only sent Woollen-Cloth as was said before but Stuffs Saffron Licorish Tin Lead Wheat Barley and good Beer as the Dutchmen know full well Herein are also many Rivers sweet Springs excellent Fountains healthful Baths populous Cities commodious Havens and in a word there is hardly any Countrey in the Universe all things considered on which God hath bestowed larger bounties IRELAND is on all sides environed with the Sea and is a most fruitful and pleasant Countrey the Air temperate being warmer in Winter and cooler in Summer then in England The Soil is fitter for Pasture then Tillage Herein are many Rivers and Lakes which are abundantly stored with Fish as also Fowl in good plenty and great store of

Iron all of them mixt with Lead good plenty of Beasts and Birds both tame and wild also Fish and Bees without flings breed here in abundance But there is a kind of Fly or Gnat which doth offend the Inhabitants Herein also is a Tree which is planted and drest as a Vine which is reported to have 40 several sorts or kinds of Leaves fit for divers uses for they make of them Mantles Shooes Paper and many other things From the top comes a juice like Sirrup which if purified becomes Sugar if boyled Honey And there is a Mountain called Propocampeth in the Province of Mexico which sends out streams of fire like Mount Aetna in Sicilia and another in the Province of Guatimalia which casteth forth two streams of fire the one of black Pitch and the other of red Guatimalia is bounded on the South with Castella del Oro or Golden Castle on the North-West with New-Spain and the rest with the Sea as appeares in the Map It is divided into these six Provinces 1. Guatimalia specially so called is mountainous but wanteth not Rivers by reason whereof it hath not onely good plenty of Fish but much good Pasture well stored with Cattle nor is it barren in Maize Wheat and other Provision plenty of Cotton-Wooll many Apothecaries Drugs some Balsoms and good Sulphure 2. Hundura is full of Hills and Valleys fruitful in Maize and Wheat but not much Campaign very rich in Pastures by reason of the overflowing of their Rivers The people are so idle that they had rather feed on Roots then labour to till the ground 3 Chiapa is not very fit for most kind of Fruits nor Corn the Trees are bigger then in other places as Cypress Cedars Pines and Oaks and whole Woods of Walnuts but they not so big as in Europe The Countrey is full of venomous Creatures of which the Snakes are none of the least for offence nor greatness some of them being reported to be twenty foot in length Many of their Trees do not onely afford Rozen and some pretious Gums but also some whose leaves being dryed to a Powder make a good Plaister for exulcerating Sores There is likewise a Spring in the Cantred of Tafixa which in Winter is dry and in Summer full of water 4. Verapaz is full of Hills and Vallies most overgrown with thick and large Woods which so hinder the Wind that they have Rain for near nine moneths in the year by reason whereof their Fruits are much annoyed with a kind of Gnats but they have good store of Fish and some of the Trees drop Amber some Mastick and others Gums They have also many Medicinal Woods 5 Veragua is neither fit for Pasture nor Tillage because both barren and mountainous yet yieldeth Maize and Hearbs but the want of other necessaries is supplyed with Aurum Potabile Silver and such never fading Mines of Gold that the Spaniards think themselves able to cure all Diseases and supply all wants 6 Incargua is well stored with Cattle and Trees though little Corn and but few Rivers the want whereof is supplyed by a great Lake called Nicaragua which ebbs and flowes as the Sea wherein are good store of Fish and many Crocodiles it is said to have as many Parrots as England hath Crows also plenty of Sugar-canes and Cotton-Wooll Castella del oro or Golden Castle is bounded on the East with the Gulf of Venezala and some part of Paria on the West with some part of Guatimalia and Mare Del Zur on the South with New-Granada and on the North with Mare Del Nort It is divided into these five parts 1 New-Andalusia is mountainous and full of Woods wherein are good store of Gums Rozen and some kind of Balsoms The soil is very moyst through the abundance of Rain which falls thereon so as few of our European Fruits come to good 2 Martha is so mountainous and barren that it is not fit for Pasture or Tillage yet doth it produce Pomgranates Lemmons and other Fruits that are brought out of Spain The Air on the Sea-coast is sealding hot but in the midland parts cold because some Mountains are alwayes covered with Snow some of which the Marriners discern 30 Leagues at Sea and by reason of these Hills the Inhabitants do pretty well preserve their liberty in despight of the Spaniards 3 Panama lyeth in the narrowest part of the Isthmus or Straights which joyn both the Peninsulaes together The Air hereof is very hot and foggy but especially from May to November and therefore not healthful The soil is either mountainous and barren or low and miry unfit for grain so as it yields nothing but Maize and but little of that but it is better for Pasture 4 Darien the Air is good and the soil so fruitful in the increase of Melons and other Fruits that they are ripe within 20 dayes after they are sown and here are Fowl and Beasts in great plenty the like not heard of in o●her parts 5 De la Hatha hath very good Salt divers Mines of Gold some gems of much value And the Soil is fruitful in such Plants as are brought from Spain Paria is bounded on the East with Guiana on the West with the Gulf of Venezala on the South it is not discovered and on the North it hath Mare Del Nort It is divided into these two parts 1. Cumana so far as it is discovered is neither pleasant nor rich covered with Bushes and Briers but is in esteem for an excellent Salt that is found near the Bay of Carico in great abundance The people are treacherous high-minded and revengeful accustomed to use poysoned Arrows which they venome with Snakes bloud and other mixtures They have many Wives which they prostitute to the Piacos or Priest for the first nights lodging They also put strange colours on their bodies instead of garments and like black Teeth so well that they take great pains to make them so And are singular from others not onely in fencing their Ground or Orchard with a Cotton-thread as high as the middle with an Opinion that whosoever goes under over or breaks it shall die immediately but also in feeding on Spiders Horse-Leeches Worms Grashoppers and the like 2. Venezala is so plentiful of Grain Cattle and Fruits that it doth not only supply themselves but spareth the Neighbouring Nations such store of wheat Meal Swines flesh Fish Oxen Hides and Cotton-Cloth that it is called a Granary The Women are trained up to leap ride run and swim as we●l as the men and do not onely look to the hou●e but till the Land whilest the men fish and hunt Guiana is bounded on the East with some part of the Atlantick Ocean and Brasile on the West with part of Par●a and some undiscovered Countries which lye b●tween it and ●eru on the South with a good part of the River Amazons and on the North with some part of the River Oronoque and Mare Del Nort or the Atlantick Ocean The

the Men and Women FRISLAND so called from the continual Frosts to which it is subject is situated farther from the Arctick then Ice-land the Soil so cold and barren that it beareth neither Corn nor Fruit The Inhabitants live most on Fish which is the chief commodity to invite the Merchant GROENLAND the greater part is situated within the Arctick and is continually covered with Snow except June July and August so that the people are clad in Skins and Furs and dwell much in Caves and are given to Necromancy The chief place of note is St. Thomas his Monastery which as Mercator relates is not far from a burning Mountain standing upon hot scalding Springs conveyed by Pipes of Stone into the Monastery serving both for a Stove to warm them and fire to heat their Victuals The Walls of the Monastery are built of Pumice-stones cast out of that Mountain Which being tempered with the water of those Springs doth make a glutinous substance instead of Lime and as durable And the Garden in regard of this heat is stored with Herbs and sweet Flowers all the year and the adjoyning Sea for the same reason is never frozen but affords both Fish and Fowl SWEDELAND is bounded on the East with Russia on the West with Denmark and Norway on the South with the Baltick Sea and on the North with the North or Petzork Sea The Air is pure and not so extream sharp as in Norway though in some parts for want of care in opening and cleansing the Water-courses there are great Mists and Fogs which do corrupt it The people are naturally strong active and so industrious and provident that they have no beggars Hospitable to strangers and so healthful that they live commonly to above 100 years of age The Commodities that the Countrey affords are Barley Malt Steel Lead Brasse Iron Tallow Nuts Honey costly Furs Hides of Goats Bucks Elks Oxen as also plenty of Pine-Trees Firs and Oaks Neither do their Lakes and Rivers want Fish In Religion they are Lutheran Protestants and are governed by Arch-Bishops and Bishops Of the Isles belonging to Sweden 1. The first is Oeland of no great note but that it is strongly garrisoned and well fortified 2. The second Gothland the Soil is very good but not so much for Tillage as Pasture affording great store of Fish plenty of Pitch and very good Marble POLAND is bounded on the East with Russia on the West with Germany on the South with Hungary and on the North with the Baltick Sea which divides it from Sweden It is plain but full of Woods which are a good meanes to rectifie the coldness of the Air. They have Barley and Pulse in abundance also Wheat and Rye in good plenty and such store of Cattle that it alone is able to supply the greatest part of Europe The people are industrious and studious of Languages especially the Latine proud in their Garb costly in Apparel impatient in their Humors and delicate in their Diet the last common to the Women who are more witty then well spoken But then you must understand that it is spoken chiefly of them on the South part Their Religion is of all sorts Lutherans Calvinists and Arrians and what not but the most part are of the Church of Rome and the Greek Church The first of which hath three Arch-Bishops and 19 Bishops The latter two Arch-Bishops and six Bishops But amongst all of them there is this conformity That whensoever the Gospel is read in the Congregation the Nobility and Gentry use to draw their Swords shewing their readiness to defend the same against all opposers The Commodities wherein it aboundeth are Wheat Rye Honey Wax Pitch Tar Hemp Flax Amber Spruce or Dantz Beer It hath also some Mines of Copper and Iron HUNGARY is bounded on the East with Moldavia on the West with Germany on the South with Sclavonia and on the North with Poland The Soyl is very fruitful in Corn and hath such plenty of Cattle as it alone is thought to be able to supply all Europe therewith and yet some say they send Eighty Thousand Oxen into Germany and Sclavonia yearly and Partridges Pheasants and Deere are there in such abundance that any one may kill them Here are many Rivers plentifully stored with Fish The other Commodities are Tin Iron Copper Lead Salt Wine divers sorts of Colours and some Veins of gold and silver The people are strong of body rude of beheaviour and shew their descent to be of the Scythians by their neglect of Learning both in the Liberal Arts and Mechanical Trades Their Sons equally inherit without priviledge of Birth-right The greatest aspersion with them is the name of a Coward which cannot be wiped away without killing a Turk after which they have the priviledge to wear a Feather the number that they wear signifying the number of Turks killed in Battle They delight in War as their only Trade being slothful like the Irish that so they may live on other mens labours Their Daughters portion is only a new Attire As for Religion they are reckoned Christians a free Exercise whereof was first granted by Maximilian The German Emperour and the Turks share the Countrey betwixt them SCLAVONIA is bounded on the East with Dacia on the West with part of Italy on the South with the Adriatick Sea or Gulf of Venice and on the North with Hungary part of it belongs to the Venetian States pa● to the Hungarians and some to the Turks The people are proud and stubborn strong of body and thereby inabled for works of drudgery of which they have had their share The Countrey is fruitful in those things that are found in Italy and not much inferiour thereto for it hath not only Wine-Oyl good store of Cattle wild and tame but some Veins of silver and gold The Northern parts are mountainous but afford breed of sheep which bring forth young twice a year and are shorn foure times a year as saith my Author Nor is the Sea-coast unprofitable to them for besides the plenty of Fish it affords many convenient Havens The greatest part profess the Christian Religion and allow both that of the Greek Church and that of Rome also yet they are permitted to celebrate Divine Offices in their Natural Language but they are not all Christians the Turks and Mahometans prevailing in these parts There are some small Isles under their obedience that belong thereto as Pogo Pharus but we must passe them by GREECE is bounded on all sides with the Sea except on the North where it bordereth on Dacia as you may see in the Map It was once the Mother of all Learning and Arts but now a Den of the Turkish Emperours whose Palace is at Constantinople The people are not only destitute of Learning and means to obtain it but riotous unconstant uncivil and so lazie that for the most part they endeavour their profit no further then their belly compels them The Women are of a brown complexion

are so many Kingdoms and Provinces The River of Niger spoken of before is found to have its Rise from a great Lake some two degrees from the Equinoctial or Line of the Sun whence running forward for a good space he hideth himself under ground for about 60 miles together then rising up again maketh a Lake called Borneo as you may see in the Map and then bendeth his course directly towards the West taking in many lesser Channels or Rivers and at last falleth into the Sea Of a much like length and of the same wonderful nature as the River Nilus for from the 15 of June it over-flowes all the adjoyning fields for the space of 40 days and in so many more recollecteth his Waters into their proper Channels The whole Countrey is indebted to these inundations for its fruitfulness which otherwise would be but little for the dryness of the Soil can afford no Exhalations whereby Clouds may be generated and the Earth refreshed with moistures or enlivened and revived with Dews The chief Commodities are Sanders Civet Ivory Sugar Mines of Gold and other Mettals Aethiopia-Superior or The Higher otherwise called Abissines is bounded on the East with the Red Sea and the Sea called Barbar●●● on the West with the River Nilus which parts it from the Land of Negroes on the South with the Mountains of the Moon and on the North with some part of Egypt It is situated on both sides the Equator and is governed by one of the greatest Emperors in the World who is by us called Prester John His Court remains not long in one place for some say it consists of 6000 Tents only which encompass 12 or 13 miles He is said by some to have 70 Kings under him who have their several Laws and Customs But Historians do much differ herein so as I am not satisfied The chief Kingdoms are 1 Dangali 2 Dobas 3 Adel 4 Tigremnon 5 Barnagasso 6 Guagere 7 Bagamedrum 8 Damut 9 Amara 10 Angote 11 Goiamy 12 Adea 13 Fatigar 14 Xoa And 15 Barus There are many others in the Imperial style but of little note and therefore we shall forbear to name them The Title which the chief Ruler or Emperour claims and takes to himself because both strange and arrogant I will here set down N. N. Supream of his Kingdoms and the Beloved of God the Pillar of Faith sprung from the Stock of Judah the son of David the son of Solomon the son of the Columne of Sion the son of the Seed of Jacob the sonne of the Hand of Mary the sonne of Nahu after the Flesh the son of St. Peter and St. Paul after the Spirit Emperour of the Higher and Lower Ethiopia of the most mighty Kingdoms Dominions and Countries of Xoa Goa Caffares Adea Vangne Balignazo c. and Lord of all the Regions to the Confines of Egypt The Air of this Countrey is very hot and the ground so parcht that the people are said to roast their meat in the Sun And therefore 〈◊〉 populous except in the Northern part and Sea-Coasts they have not much Wheat but plenty of Rice Barley Pease Sugar Orenges Lemmons Citrons Honey Minerals of all sorts and many Heards of Cattle as Oxen Sheep and Goats It is a good Countrey for increase were not the Inhabitants idle for they have plenty of Vines but make little Wine Flax but make no Cloth and Woods full of Venison which they trouble not themselves to catch being destitute of Learning and very base in Religion for though there be some Christians which are said to be first planted by St. Philip who baptized the Eunuch of Queen Candace yet now they much differ from their antient purity They circumcise both Sexes and after baptize them and keep the Saturday for Jewish Sabbath equal with the Lords Day They baptize themselves every Epiphany Day in Lakes and Ponds because they say that Christ was that day baptized of John in Jordan Aethiopia Inferior or Lower is on all sides begirt on the Sea except towards the North and there it is separated from the Abissines or Aethiopia Superior by the Mountains of the Moon It is so called because o● its lower situation and is governed by five chief Rulers or Kings each having a several Province belonging to him As first Monomotapa whose Air is temperate and Soil good and though it be full of Forrests yet are they well watered with Rivers that carry Gold in their Sands It hath also good store of Corn and Pasture wherein are many Heards of very large Cattle and such plenty of Elephants that they are said to kill 5000 yearly for their Teeth and herein are reported to be 3000 Mines of Gold The people are black of Complexion couragious strong active and so extream swift of foot that some say they will out-run Horses They may have as many Wives as they please but the first is chief and her Children only are Heirs In punishing offendors they use no Prisons but execute them as soon as apprehended and they use most severity to Witchcraft Theft and Adutery 2 Manicongo the Air is so temperate in Winter that they neither change their Garments nor make more fire than at other times The Day and Night for the greatest part of the year little differ The Soil is very fruitful and doth not only produce Fruits Plants and Hearbs but hath good Pasture also in which are bred many Herds of Cattle large Flocks of Sheep Stags Goats Conies Hares and Elephants so large that their Teeth weigh 200 pounds and Serpents of that bigness that they eat a whole Deer at once Here are Fowl also in great plenty both Tame and Wild. The people are said to have Shambles of mans flesh as we have for meat and they kill their Children in the birth to avoid the trouble of breeding them preserving their Nation with stollen brats from the adjacent Countries 4 Zanguebar is low and Fenny and much overflown with unruly Rivers and so full of Forrests and Woods that for want of Air it is very pestilent The people are black of Complexion very much given to South-saying indeed Witchcraft 4 Cafraia so much of it as is discovered is said to be plentifully stored with Heards of Cattle Flocks of Sheep great store of Foxes Deers Pheasants Partridges Geese Ducks and other Beasts and Fowl Also the Hills are as it were mingled with grassie Vallies stored with Forrests and Woods and in brief all things necessary for the use of man were it better stored with Corn. And pitty it is that the people of so good a Countrey should be so base and brutish that men can hardly say whether the people generally may be thought to be men in the Skins of Beasts or Beasts in the shapeand likeness of men In this Countrey stands the Cape of Good-Hope about which the Sea is alwayes dangerous it hath been so especially to the Spaniard in omuch that one was angry with God that he suffered the English

People are without any setled Government though they acknowledge some Superiority in the chief parts The Richest who have two or three Wives a piece and the poorer who have but one are alike jealous and if they take them in Adultery they beat out their brains without more ado Their Wives but especially the eldest they use as servants and solemnize their Funerals with a strange Feast for the men drink and sing and the Women houl Their Accounts and Reckonings they keep by a bundle of sticks which they either increase or diminish as they have occasion The Countrey is divided into these three parts 1. Guiana specially so called is so fruitful that on the shrubs grow plenty of Cotton Sugar-canes without planting and Tobacco to nine handfuls long Their Fields are well stored with Beasts which they call Moyres in use and shape resembling Kine but without horns their Woods with Venison and their Rivers with Fish They make their Bread and Drink of a Plant called Cassavi and a great part of their Food is Fish which they intoxicate with a strong-scented Wood and so take them up while they are floating on the top of the Water 2. Oronoque is very rich and pleasant consisting of large Plains adorned with unknown Plants and Flowers and sometimes Hills intermingled which are reported to be furnished with Mines of Silver and Gold the Forests with Beasts and Fowl and the Rivers with Fish so that no Countrey in all America can compare with this for abundance of Riches 3. Rio de las Amazones or the River of Amazons though in some places it be dry and barren yet in others very fruitful and full of large Woods wherein are most sorts of Trees which are found in America Amongst the rest here is one peculiar to this place which they call Too-ock of a very large Bulk and the Fruit as big as a mans head so that when it is ripe the people dare not go into the Woods without some strong shelter for fear it should beat out their brains New-Granada is bounded on the East with Guiana on the West with Mare Del Zur on the South the Countries not yet discovered and on the North with Castella Del Oro. It is generally full of Woods and hath good Pasture in some parts wherein are many Cattle some Corn Mines of Gold and other Mettals but not so good And here groweth the Wood Guatican good for the French Pox. The Air hereof is much alike both in Winter and Summer the People tall and strong of body and given much to dancing and singing Peru is bounded on the East with a great ridge of Mountains called Andes on the West with Mare Del Zur on the South with Chile and on the North with some part of New-Granada It affords very little Maize or Wheat so that the Inhabitants live most on Roots yet they have store of a kind of sheep which they call Pacos as big as a small breed of Horses but in taste as pleasant as our English Mutton and not inferiour for nourishment nor are they onely of good use for their fleece and flesh but also to carry burthens and so well they know their own strength that if they are overladen no blows will make them go till their burthen be lightned Herein are also a multitude of Beasls like wild Goats And though the great Riches of this Countrey be in the never-fading Mines of Gold and Silver yet Tobacco is no small profit to the Spaniard The people are ignorant of Letters but well skild in such Weapons as they had been used to Of good courage in Warre and fearless of death prompt thereto by an old conceit that in the other World they shall eat drink and love Women And therefore divers times at the Burials of great persons who were attended on in this life they use to kill and bury one or more of his servants with him to wait upon him in the other World This Countrey is of a vast length but the breadth not answerable Chile is bounded on the East with some unknown Countries on the West with the Pacifick Sea or Mare del Zur on the South with the Straights of Magellanica and on the North with that part of Peru called the Desart of Alacama It lyeth almost wholly between the Straights of Magellanica and the Tropick of Capricorn and therefore in the South temperate-Zone and yet as some say extream cold insomuch that some are frozen to death and hardned like Marble And though the Midland be mountainous and barren yet towards the Sea it is very fruitful in Maize and Wheat and hath very good Pasture stored with Cattle plenty of Gold Silver and Honey The people are of a large stature and white complexion The Straights of Magellan were so called from Magellanus who first discovered them Their breadth is very unequal for in some places it is 5 or 10 miles broad in some 2 or 3 in the narrowest but one There are in all 3 several Straights which heretofore they were clear of The first of which is most dangerous because it ebbeth and floweth with violent swiftness The second is bad enough though least dangerous The third is said to be of that nature that let a man steer his course which way he will the Wind will be still against him And therefore it is no marvel that Magellanus when he had past them and got into the main Ocean called it the Pacifick or Peaceable Sea Paraguay is bounded on the East with some part of the main Atlantick on the West with some unknown Countries between it and Chile on the South with part of Chile the main Atlantick Ocean on the North with some part of Brasile So far as it is discovered it is said to be very fruitful in Wheat and European Fruits and the Cattle which are brought from Spain increase much there It hath some veins of Gold and Silver Mines of Brass Iron Monkies Stags in abundance I need not say that here are good store of Tigers Lions and such like Creatures a few of them being too many Brasile is bounded on the East with the Main Atlantick on the West with some unknown Countries on the South with Paraguay and on the North with some part of Guiana the Atlantick Ocean It is very fruitful in most places were it not for the abundance of rain which doth often fall yet Sugar-canes grow here in great plenty and a kind of Wheat which is alwayes growing and continually ripe for when some is ripe others blossom And here is a certain Plant called Copiba the vertue of which is known to the very Beasts for if they are bit by any venomous Creature they resort to it for cure The people are the Monsters of Nature being malicious and barbarous for when they get the body of a fat man they gather a company together and rost him making a jovial Banquet therewith They are said to worship no God at all