the people called Clodi, Risophagi, Bobylonij, Axiuntae, Molili, and Molibae.  After these is the region called Troglodytica, whose inhabitants dwel in caues and dennes:  for these are their houses, and the flesh of serpents their meat, as writeth Plinie, and Diodorus Siculus.  They haue no speach, but rather a grinning and chattering.  There are also people without heads, called Blemines, hauing their eyes and mouth in their breast.  Likewise Strucophagi, and naked Ganphasantes:  Satyrs also, which haue nothing of men but onely shape.  Moreouer Oripei, great hunters.  Mennones also and the region of Smyrmophora, which bringeth foorth myrrhe.  After these is the region of Azania, in the which many Elephants are found.  A great part of the other regions of Africke that are beyond the Aequinoctiall line, are now ascribed to the kingdome of Melinde, whose inhabitants are accustomed to trafique with the nations of Arabia, and their king is ioyned in friendship with the king of Portugal, and payeth tribute to Prester Iohn.

The other Ethiope, called AEthiopia interior (that is) the inner Ethiope, is not yet knowne for the greatnesse thereof, but onely by the sea coastes:  yet is it described in this manner.  First from the Aequinoctiall toward the South, is a great region of Aethiopians, which bringeth forth white Elephants, Tygers, and the beastes called Rhinocerotes.  Also a region that bringeth foorth plenty of cynamome, lying betweene the branches of Nilus.  Also the kingdome of Habech or Habasi, a region of Christian men, lying both on this side and beyond Nilus.  Here are also the Aethiopians, called Ichthiopagi (that is) such as liue onely by fish, and were sometimes subdued by the warres of great Alexander.  Furthermore the Aethiopians called Rhapsij, and Anthropophagi, that are accustomed to eat mans flesh, inhabite the regions neere vnto the mountains called Montes Lunae (that is) the mountaines of the Moone.  Gazati is vnder the Tropike of Capricorne.  After this followeth the front of Afrike, the Cape of Buena Speranza, or Caput Bonae Spei, that is, the Cape of good hope, by the which they passe that saile from Lisbon to Calicut.  But by what names the Capes and gulfes are called, forasmuch as the same are in euery globe and card, it were here superfluous to rehearse them.

Some write that Africa was so named by the Grecians, because it is without colde.  For the Greeke letter Alpha or A signifies priuation, voyd, or without:  and Phrice signifies colde.  For in deed although in the stead of Winter they haue a cloudy and tempestuous season, yet is it not colde, but rather smothering hote, with hote showres of raine also, and somewhere such scorching windes, that what by one meanes and other, they seeme at certaine times to liue as it were in fornaces, and in maner already halfe way in Purgatorie or hell.  Gemma Phrisius writeth, that in certaine parts of Africa, as in Atlas the greater, the aire in the night season is seene shining, with