AFRICA:
BEING AN
ACCURATE DESCRIPTION
OF THE
REGIONS
OF

Ægypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid,

The LAND of
Negroes, Guinee, Æthiopia, and the Abyssines;
With all the Adjacent Islands, either in the Mediterranean,
Atlantick, Southern, or Oriental Sea, belonging thereunto.

With the several Denominations of their
Coasts, Harbors, Creeks, Rivers, Lakes, Cities,
Towns, Castles, and Villages,

THEIR
Customs, Modes, and Manners, Languages,
Religions, and Inexhaustible Treasure;
With their
Governments and Policy, variety of Trade and Barter;
And also of their
Wonderful Plants, Beasts, Birds, and Serpents.

Collected and Translated from most Authentick Authors,
And Augmented with later Observations;
Illustrated with Notes, and Adorn'd with peculiar Maps, and proper Sculptures,
By JOHNE OGILBY Esq;
Master of His Majesties REVELS in the Kingdom of IRELAND.

LONDON,
Printed by Tho. Johnson for the Author, and are to be had at his
House in White Fryers, M.D.C.LXX.

fraitly charge, prohibit, and forbid all our Loving Subjects to Print or Re-print the said Books, in any Volumes, or any of them; or to Copy or Counterfeit any the Sculptures or Ingravements therein, within the Term of Fifteen Years next ensuing the Date of these Prefents, without the Consent and Approbation of the said John Ogilby, his Heirs, Executors, Administrators, or Aſigns; as they and every of them ſo offending, will answer the contrary at their utmoſt Peril: Whereof the Wards and Company of Stationers of Our City of London, are to take particular notice, that due Obedience be given to this Our Royal Command.

Given under Our Signet and Sign-Manual at Our Court at Whitehall, the first day of November, 1669. in the One and twentieth Year of Our Reign.

By His Majesties Command.

J. TREVOR.

THE
PREFACE.

Ntering upon ſo great a Work, being no ſmall
Concern in my Territory of Bufineſs, I fup-
pofe it proper, never Apologizing hereto-
fore, by way of Preface, to give you a brief
Review of all my former Endeavors, ſo lead-
ing you on to this preſent Occaſion.

Many years are paſt with various Revolu-
tions, ſince in the firſt Fluctuations of the late
Grand Rebellion, I being left at leifure from former Imployments
belonging to the quiet of Peace wherein I was bred, in ſtead of
Arms, to which in parties moſt began to buckle, I betook my ſelf to
fomething of Literature, in which, till then, altogether a Stran-
ger; And drawing towards the Evening of my Age, I made a lit-
tle Progrefſs, bending my ſelf to ſofter Studies, adapted to my Abi-
lities and Inclinations, Poefie: And firſt Rallying my new rais'd
Forces, a ſmall and inconfiderable parcel of Latin, I undertook no
leſa Conqueſt, than the Reducing into our Native Language,
the Great Maſter and Grand Improver of that Tongue, Vir-
gil, the Prince of Roman Poets; and though I ſell much ſhort in
this my vain Enterprife, yet ſuch, and ſo happy prov'd the Verfi-
on, and ſo fairly accepted, that of me, till then obſcure, Fame be-
gan to prattle, and ſoon after I, forſooth, ſtood forth a new Author;
and ſo much cheer'd up with fresh Encouragements, that from a
Mean Oſtavo, a Royal Folio Flourifh'd, Adorn'd with Sculp-
ture, and Illustrat'd with Annotations, Triumphing with the affixt
Emblazons, Names, and Titles of a hundred Patrons, all bold AF-
fertors in Vindication of the Work, which (what e're my Deſerts)
being Publifh'd with that Magnificence and Splendor, appear'd
a new, and taking Beauty, the faireſt that till then the English Preſs
ever boafted.

Yet this firſt Endeavour rais'd my Reputation no farther, than
to be accounted a Good Transflator, a Faithful Interpreter, one
that had dabled well in others Helicon; but I, greedy of more,
having