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HIS DISCOURSE OF THE RELIGIONS PROFESSED THERE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2011

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AFrica containeth fower sorts of people different in religion: that is to say, Gentiles, Iewes, Mahumetans, and Christians. The Gentiles extend themselues along the shoare of the Ocean, in a manner from Cabo Blanco, or the white Cape, euen to the northern borders of Congo; as likewise, from the southerly bounds of the same kingdome, euen to Capo de buena Esperança: & from thence, to that of De los Corrientes: and within the land they spred out from the Ethiopick Ocean, euen vnto Nilus, and beyond Nilus also from the Ethiopick, to the Arabian sea. These Gentiles are of diuers sorts, for some of them haue no light of God, or religion, neither are they gouerned by any rule or law. Wherupon the Arabians call them Cafri, that is to say, lawlesse, or without law. They haue but fewe habitations, and they liue for the most part in caues of mountaines, or in woods, wherein they finde some harbour from winde and raine. The ciuilest among them, who haue some vnderstanding and light of diuinitie and religion, obey the Monomotapa, whose dominion extendeth with a great circuite, from the confines of Matama, to the riuer Cuama: but the noblest part thereof is comprehended betweene the mightie riuer of Magnice or Spirito Sancto, and that of Cuama, for the space of sixe hundred leagues.

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The History and Description of Africa
And of the Notable Things Therein Contained
, pp. 1001 - 1063
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1896

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