A description of the kingdome of Telensin.

This kingdome beginneth westward from the riuers of Zha & Muluia, eastward it bordereth vpon The great riuer, southward vpon the desert of Numidia, and northward vpon the Mediterran sea. This region was called by the Romanes Cæsaria, and was by them inhabited: howbeit after the Romanes were expelled, it was fullie possessed by the ancient gouernours thereof called Beni Habdulguad, and being a generation of the familie of Magraua. And it remained vnto them and their successors three hundred yeeres, vntill such time as a certaine mightie man called Ghamrazen the sonne of Zeÿen tooke possession thereof. His posteritie changing at length their ancient name were called Beni Zeÿen, that is, the sonnes of Zeÿen: and they enioied this kingdome for the space almost of 380. yeeres. At length the kings of Fez of the Marin-familie greatly molested them, so that those ten kings which succeeded Zeÿen were some of them vnfortuate in battell, some slaine, some taken captiue, and others expelled their kingdome, and chased to the next mountaines. Neither were they free from vexation of the kings of Tunis: howbeit the kingdome of Telensin still remained to this familie, and they continued in peace for almost an hundred and twentie yeeres, being endammaged by no forren power; sauing that one Abu Feris king of Tunis, and his sonne Hutmen made them to pay tribute for certaine yeeres vnto Tunis, till the decease of the said Hutmen.