The History and Description of Africa: And of the Notable Things Therein Contained, Volume 2Hakluyt Society, 1896 |
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abundance Aghmat Almohades ancient apparell Arabians Arabic Atlas beautifull Berber built called captaine castle cattell Ceuta Christians citie citizens containeth continuall corne desert diuers ducates Edrisi enuironed euery families farre fiue foorth foresaid fower gardens gouernour hath haue hauing Hegeira horsemen houses howbeit hundred hundreth Ibn Khaldun Idris inhabitants Jebel Jews king of Fez kingdome kingdome of Fez Larache Leo's day likewise Mahumet Mahumetan Mansor Marakesh Marmol Maroco Mazagan Mediterran sea mentioned merchants miles distant Mogador Mohammed Moors Moreouer Morocco mosque mount mountaine Mulai neere vnto neuer Numidia ouer plaine Portugall Portugals Portuguese prince prouince Rabat region Renou riuer river Roman Roudh ruins runneth Saffi Sallee selfe seuen side Sidi slaine sonne standeth subiect Sultan Tangier Telensin temple themselues thousand Tlemsen towne townesmen tribe tribute twelue village vnto vnto the king vpon wall warre whereof Yakub yeeld yeere
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Halaman 614 - Nibelunge," such as it was written down at the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century, is
Halaman 263 - ... construction. Close by is the unpretentious grave of the builder of Marrakesh, surrounded only by a ruinous wall, of which tradition says that whenever a shrine has been raised there it has fallen as soon as the tower was finished. The lanthorn is surmounted, in the quaint words of Pory's Leo, by " a golden halfe moone, vpon a barre of iron, with three spheares of golde vnder it ; which golden spheares are so fastened vnto ' ° ^ " the saide iron barre that the greatest is lowest, and the least...
Halaman 450 - In the meane season the banket is comming foorth : and a certaine woman standeth before the bride-chamber doore, expecting till the bridegroome hauing defloured his bride reacheth her a napkin stained with blood, which napkin she carrieth incontinent and sheweth to the guestes, proclaiming with a lowd voice, that the bride was euer till that time a vnspotted and pure virgine.
Halaman 489 - ... of them an armed man, who opening the doore presents himselfe to the view of the lion: then the lion seeing the doores open, comes running toward them with great furie, but the doores being shut againe, he waxeth more furious then before: then bring they foorth a bull to...
Halaman 458 - ... and when they will tell any mans fortune, they perfume themselves with certaine odours, saying, that then they possesse themselves with that divell which they called for: afterwards changing their voice, they faine the divell to speake within them: then they which come to enquire, ought with great feare & trembling aske these vile & abominable witches such questions as they meane to propound, and lastly offering some fee unto the divell, they depart. But the wiser and honester sort of people...
Halaman 458 - ... command they lie with the witches. Yea some there are, which being allured with the delight of this abominable vice, will desire the companie of these witches, and faining themselves to be sicke, will either call one of the witches home to them, or will send their husbands for the same purpose: and so the witches perceiving how the matter stands, will say that the woman is possessed with a divell, and that she can no way be cured, unlesse she be admitted into their societie.
Halaman 248 - ... Animadv. (5. 50) 3. 223; Hist. Brit. (4) 5. 187; (5) 5. 193, 194, 197, 208, 218; (6) 5. 250, 258, 282. A county of England south of the Thames. Sus. PL 11. 403. (See also Almansor.) A province of southwestern Morocco. " Now comes the region of Sus to be considered of, being situate beyond Atlas, over against the territorie of Hea, that is to say, in the extreme part of Africa. Westward it beginneth from the Ocean sea, and south-ward from the sandie deserts: on the north it is bounded with the...
Halaman 459 - ... themselves to be sicke, will either call one of the witches home to them, or will send their husbands for the same purpose: and so the witches perceiving how the matter stands, will say that the woman is possessed with a divell, and that she can no way be cured, unlesse she be admitted into their societie. With these words her silly husband being persuaded, doth not onely permit her so to doe, but makes also a sumptuous banket...
Halaman 458 - ... have familiarity with divels. Changing their voices they fain the divell to speak within them: then they which come to enquire ought with greate feare and trembling (to) aske these vile and abominable witches such questions as they mean to propound, and lastly, offering some fee unto the divell, they depart. But the wiser and honester sort of people call these women sahacat, which in Latin signifieth fricatrices, because they have a damnable custom to commit unlawful venerie among themselves,...
Halaman 455 - Marin-familie prospered, they used to invite all the learned men of the citie unto their palace, and honorably entertaining them, they commanded each man in their hearing to recite their verses to the commendation of Mahumet, and he that was in all mens opinions esteemed the best poet was rewarded by the king with an hundred duckats, with an excellent horse, with a woman-slave, and with the kings own robes wherewith he was then apparelled; all the rest had fiftie duckats apeece given them, so that...