it is increased and diminished at the same time, and bringeth forth the like beasts as the Crocodile.  By reason whereof, I thinke this to be the same riuer which the Portugals called Senega:  For this riuer is also of the same nature.  It is furthermore marueilous and very strange that is said of this river:  And this is, that on the one side thereof, the inhabitants are of high stature and black, and on the other side, of browne or tawne colour, and low stature, which thing also our men confirme to be true.

[Sindenote:  People of Libya.] There are also other people of Libya called Garamantes, whose women are common:  for they contract no matrimonie; neither haue respect to chastitie.  After these are the nations of the people called Pyrei, Sathiodaphnitae, Odrangi, Mimaces, Lynxamatae, Dolopes, Aganginae, Leuci Ethiopes, Xilicei Ethiopei, Calcei Ethiopes, and Nubi.  These haue the same situation in Ptolome that they now giue to the kingdome of Nubia.  Here are certaine Christians vnder the dominion of the great Emperour of AEthiopia, called Prester Iohn.  From these toward the West is a great nation of people called Aphricerones, whose region (as faire as may be gathered by coniecture) is the same that is now called Regnum Orguene, confining vpon the East parts of Guinea.  From hence Westward, and somewhat toward the North, are the kingdoms of Gambra and Budomel, not farre from the riuer of Senega.  And from hence toward the inland regions, and along by the sea coast, are the regions of Ginoia or Guinea, which we commonly call Ginnee. [Sidenote:  The Portugals Nauigation to Brasile.] On the Westside of these regions toward the Ocean, is the cape or point called Cabo verde, or Caput viride, (that is) the greene cape, to the which the Portugals first direct their course when they saile to America, or the land of Brasile.  Then departing from hence, they turne to the right hand toward the quarter of the winde called Garbino, which is betweene the West and the South.  But to speake somewhat more of AEthiopia:  although there are many nations of people so named, yet is AEthiopia chiefly diuided into two parts, whereof the one is called Aethiopia vnder Aegypt, a great and rich region.  To this perteineth the Island Meroe, imbraced round about with the stremes of the riuer Nilus.  In this Island women reigned in old time.  Iosephus writeth, that it was sometime called Sabea:  and that the Queene of Saba came from thence to Ierusalem, to heare the wisedom of Salomon. [Sidenote:  Prester Iohn Emperour of Aethiopia.] From hence toward the East reigneth the said Christian Emperour Prester Iohn, whom some cal Papa Iohannes, and other say that he is called Pean Iuan (that is) great Iohn, whose Empire reacheth far beyond Nilus, and is extended to the coasts of the Red sea and Indian sea.  The middle of the region is almost in 66. degrees of longitude, and 12. degrees of latitude. [Sidenote:  People of the Eastside of Africa.] About this region inhabite