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THE Iland of the Good-yeere, or de Annobon, was so called, because it was discoverd at the beginning of the New-yeere. It is situate 3. degrees Southward beyond the Aequinoctiall, and it is inhabited: there is good fishing by the shore side: and flying fishes are sometimes seene here. Here are also great store of Crocodiles, and venemous Creatures. And let so much suffice to have beene spoken concerning Guinea, and these Ilands, together with Affrick. And now to conclude, I thinke it meete to set downe that which Aeneas Gazaeus a Greeke Writer doth report in his Theophrastus, or Booke of the immortality of the Soule, or Resurrection of the dead, who affirmeth that to his great amazement hee beheld the Martyrs, and Priests of great Libya, when their tongues were puld and cut out by the Tyrants command, yet they spoke aloud, and with a cheerefull couragious heart declared the wonderfull workes of God. Hee that desireth to know more, let him have recourse to Salust in his Jugurthine Warre: and the Voyage of Hanno an Affrican, which he shall finde in Arrianus: and Iambolus his Voyage in Diadorus Siculus. Also Herodotus his Melpomene. Of the Moderne Writers let him consult with Aloysius Cadamustus: Vascus de Gama: Francis Alvares, who viewed Aethiopia: Iohn Leo, who describeth it the most acurately of them all, and Ludovick Marmolius, also Livy, Sanutus, and others. Concerning the River Nilus the greatest in all the world, you may read the Letters of Iohn Biptista Rhamusus, and Ierome Fracastorius. We come now to Asia the third part of the World.</blockquote> |
THE Iland of the Good-yeere, or de Annobon, was so called, because it was discoverd at the beginning of the New-yeere. It is situate 3. degrees Southward beyond the Aequinoctiall, and it is inhabited: there is good fishing by the shore side: and flying fishes are sometimes seene here. Here are also great store of Crocodiles, and venemous Creatures. And let so much suffice to have beene spoken concerning Guinea, and these Ilands, together with Affrick. And now to conclude, I thinke it meete to set downe that which Aeneas Gazaeus a Greeke Writer doth report in his Theophrastus, or Booke of the immortality of the Soule, or Resurrection of the dead, who affirmeth that to his great amazement hee beheld the Martyrs, and Priests of great Libya, when their tongues were puld and cut out by the Tyrants command, yet they spoke aloud, and with a cheerefull couragious heart declared the wonderfull workes of God. Hee that desireth to know more, let him have recourse to Salust in his Jugurthine Warre: and the Voyage of Hanno an Affrican, which he shall finde in Arrianus: and Iambolus his Voyage in Diadorus Siculus. Also Herodotus his Melpomene. Of the Moderne Writers let him consult with Aloysius Cadamustus: Vascus de Gama: Francis Alvares, who viewed Aethiopia: Iohn Leo, who describeth it the most acurately of them all, and Ludovick Marmolius, also Livy, Sanutus, and others. Concerning the River Nilus the greatest in all the world, you may read the Letters of Iohn Biptista Rhamusus, and Ierome Fracastorius. We come now to Asia the third part of the World.</blockquote> |
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Sources from old books
1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator.
The Iland of the Good-yeere. (Book Good-Year) THE Iland of the Good-yeere, or de Annobon, was so called, because it was discoverd at the beginning of the New-yeere. It is situate 3. degrees Southward beyond the Aequinoctiall, and it is inhabited: there is good fishing by the shore side: and flying fishes are sometimes seene here. Here are also great store of Crocodiles, and venemous Creatures. And let so much suffice to have beene spoken concerning Guinea, and these Ilands, together with Affrick. And now to conclude, I thinke it meete to set downe that which Aeneas Gazaeus a Greeke Writer doth report in his Theophrastus, or Booke of the immortality of the Soule, or Resurrection of the dead, who affirmeth that to his great amazement hee beheld the Martyrs, and Priests of great Libya, when their tongues were puld and cut out by the Tyrants command, yet they spoke aloud, and with a cheerefull couragious heart declared the wonderfull workes of God. Hee that desireth to know more, let him have recourse to Salust in his Jugurthine Warre: and the Voyage of Hanno an Affrican, which he shall finde in Arrianus: and Iambolus his Voyage in Diadorus Siculus. Also Herodotus his Melpomene. Of the Moderne Writers let him consult with Aloysius Cadamustus: Vascus de Gama: Francis Alvares, who viewed Aethiopia: Iohn Leo, who describeth it the most acurately of them all, and Ludovick Marmolius, also Livy, Sanutus, and others. Concerning the River Nilus the greatest in all the world, you may read the Letters of Iohn Biptista Rhamusus, and Ierome Fracastorius. We come now to Asia the third part of the World.