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File AvailableMarmol y Carvajal, L. del 1573 Primera parti de la descripcion general de Africa. Granada, Case de Rene Rabur, pp. i-vii, 1-51
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File AvailableThevet, A. 1568 The new found worlde, or Antarctike, wherein is contained wonderful and strange things, as beastes, fishes, foules, and serpents, trees, plants, mines of golde and silver: garnished with many learned authorities, travailed and written in the French tong. London, Henrie Bynneman, folio 1-24
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Of Ethiopia. Cap. 16.
ALthough that many Cosmographers haue sufficie?t?ly described the Countrey of Ethiopia, also among our writers, those the which haue made many faire Nauigations by this coast of Affrica, in many and farre Countreys, notwithstanding this shall not let, but that...
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File AvailableBermudez, J. 1565 Esta he hua breve relacao da embaixada o Patriarcha do Joao Bermudez trouxe do Emperador de Ethiopia, chamado vulgarmente Preste Joao, ao christianissimo, & zelador da fee de Christo Rey de Portugal dom Joao o terceiro deste nome. Lisboa, Francisco Correa, pp. 1-80
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Caput lj. Do reyno de Damute, & suas provincias & da mutta riqueza que nelles ha: & dalguas cousas marauilhosas. A chase nestas terras hua especia de Alicorne, o qual he montes, & esquiua, da fei?am de cauallo, & do tamanho de Asno.
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File AvailableThevet, A. 1558 Les singularitez de la France Antarctique, autrement nommee Amerique: & de plusieurs terres et isles decouvertes de nostre temps. Paris, les Heritiers de Maurice de la Porte, pp. i-viii, 167 leaves, i-iv
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[South Africa] En ceste contr?e se trouve abondance de Rhinoceros,ainsi appellez, pource qu'ils ont une corne sur le nez. Aucuns les appellent Boeufs d'Ethiopie. Cest animal est fort monstrueux & est en perpetuelle guerre & inimiti? avecques l'Elephant. Et pour ceste cause ...
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File AvailableThevet, A. 1558 Les singularitez de la France Antarctique, autrement nommee Amerique: & de plusieurs terres et isles decouvertes de nostre temps. Anvers, Christophle Plantin, pp. i-xv, 163 leaves, i-iii
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[South Africa] En ceste contr?e se trouve abondance de Rhinoceros,ainsi appellez, pource qu'ils ont une corne sur le nez. Aucuns les appellent Boeufs d'Ethiopie. Cest animal est fort monstrueux & est en perpetuelle guerre & inimiti? avecques l'Elephant. Et pour ceste cause ...
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File AvailableArrianus no year known Periplus Maris Eryhtraei
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File AvailablePtolemaeus, G. no year known Travels, liber I. 84 & I. 94
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The PDF is taken from pp. 333-336 in:
Stoerk, L., 1977. Die Nashoerner: Verbreitungs- und kulturgeschichtliche Materialien unter besonderer Berucksichtigung der Afrikanischen Arten und des Altaegyptischen Kulturbereiches. Hamburg, Verlag Born, pp. i-viii, 1-583
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File AvailableAgatharchides of Cnidos no year known Mare rubrum, 71

In: Burstein, S.M. On the Erythraean Sea. London, Hakluyt Society, Works Second Series, vol. 172: pp. i-xii, 1-202
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