In Zanzibar, neare to that Southern Cape,

Which lately from Good Hope deriu'd his name,
If not by Nature, many an vgly shape

Haue beene brought forth by Monster-making Fame,
Such Creatures hardly could producéd be,
But by th' assistance of her Midwifry.

There headlesse some are fram'd, as Momus would, With eyes and mouth, like windowes, in their breast*; Others as cast in Polyphemus mould,

Of one Light in their fore-head stand possest:

Some Pygmyes, Men Diminutiues, maintaine

Like Pawnes tall squadrons on a chesse-boord plaine.

Hence turning Northward that great Kingdome lyes, Now by the name of Manicongo knowne:

And rich Gvynæa, whose commodities

The English to their Country oft have showne.

Then Nvbia Eastward, whose warme sands enfold Heapes of the purest, best refinéd gold.

The Land of Negroes is not far from thence,
Nearer extended to th' Atlanticke Maine :

Wherein the Blacke-Prince keepes his residence,
Attended by his ietty coloured traine:

Who in their natiue beautie most delight,

And in contempt doe paint the Diuell white.

*See Note. App.

With wilde Arabia, Lybia may contend,

A field of dangers, and vnheard of feares,
Her sands want number, and her Desarts end.
Inhabited by Lyons, Panthers, Beares :

Such rough possessors of so rude a soyle,
That none, of eyther, eyther would despoyle.

Next these the Pastures of Numidia lye;
Where, with their easily-remouing tents,

The Princes of that wandring Policie

Doe follow still their Grazing Regiments:

And sure those Troopes are worser taught than fed, Where Rulers by the multitude are led.

From Sky-prop Atlas to that watry Plaine,

Which doth twixt Africk and faire Europe runne,
Oppos'd to Italy, to Fraunce, and Spayne,

Barbaria next, enioyes a milder Sunne;

Whose borders sundry kingdomes doe confine,
Fez, with Marocco, Tunés, Telesine.

Fez, long since famous for her fruitfull Vines;
And rich Marocco, which with Sugred Reedes
Sweetens the relish of those sharper wines,
Which th' other Countreys bruised cluster bleedes,
Lye next those Island in the Westerne maine,
Where Fortunes first, since dwelt Acteons trayne.

From Carthage ruines, whose yet infant State,
Bathéd in poore Queen Didoes wrongéd bloud,
Her most strange Loue turning to stronger Hate,
With Rome in long-fixt opposition stood:

Tvnis and Teseline deriu'd, doe grow

In fast-bound Friendship with great Europes foe.

EUROPE.

THE Complement of this inferiour Globe,
Fair Amphitrité, Nature's chiefest pride,
Thrice glorious with her siluer-wauéd robe,
With Islands, as with Jewels beautified:

Within her Armes enfolded, sets apart

Europe, the Earths sure Head, the Worlds sound hart.

Where swift Iberus with true lowlinesse,
Performes his dutie to the Midland mayne,

The great and lesser Balearides,

First in the Streights doe guard the coasts of Spaine, Whose éxpert Youth, were wont, the smallest thing To strike far distant with their well-rul'd sling.

Then as the Holmes, two sturdy vmpires met

Betwixt the quar'ling Welsh, and English tydes,
In equall distance each from other set,

As both remouéd from faire Severnes sides;

Sardinia next with Corsica doth stand

Twixt the fierce Roman and fell Punic Land.

Triangl'd Sicily, some Authors say,
Was once one with th' Italian Continent,
Till working Neptune twixt them dig'd away
With force of his three forkéd Instrument:
Rebell to Heau'n here Etna upward casts,
To daunt the lightning, Sulphure-fuming blasts.

Little Melita which Paules innocence,

Scaping the water, at the fire did trie,

More to the South-coast scituate from hence,

Hath been renowned for their Chiualry,

Who driu'n from Rhodes neere Caria, here withstood

The prófuse wasters of poore Christians bloud.

Next, Candy, Cradle of reputed Joue,

With Nectar-dropping Vines is ouer-spread :
Whence Eastward sacred to the Nymph of Loue,
Cyprus erects her Myrtle-crowned head.

Well twixt these two hath Neptune put some space,

Whose fruits once met in one, marre any place.

The Arch-Sea rowling from th' vnruly North,
Doth seeme to threaten Candyes ouer-throw;
But that the troopes of Cyclades stand forth
To breake the fiercenesse of his furious blow,
Like Xerxes fearefull Army, Asia's wonder,
Cutting in broken streames his strength asunder.

Aboue that are those Streights so much renown'd,
Which Europe scarce from Asia separate,
Where Helle first, Leander since was drown'd,
By them made famous, though vnfortunate,

Yet (so from smalness things to greatnesse rise :)
The Greater-Sea beyond this passage lyes.

Such is that Channell, by whose slender sides,
As through her Sluce, the vast Mæotis Pond
Charged with full fraught Greatnesse hardly slides
From out her round shores close incircling bond :
Which Tanais falling from the frozen Hils,
With his cold, almost Chrystall current fils.

Neare Tanais with Tartary confin'd,

Along the Northern Ocean, doth lye

With wast Liuonia in the West conioyn'd

The spacious Empire of vast Muscovy,

Whose Duke like Boreas in his big-built Hall,
Does foes at hand affright, farre off appall.

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