A report of the kingdome of Congo, a region of Africa and of the countries that border rounde about the same. 1. Wherein is also shewed that the two Zones, Torrida and Frigida, are not only habitable, but inhabited, and very temperate, contrary to the opinion of the olde philosophers. 2. That the blacke colour ... of the Ethiopians and Negroes, etc. proceedeth not from the sunne. 3. And that the River Nilus springeth not out of the Mountains of the Moone ... 4. Besides the description of divers plantes, fishes and beastes ... / Drawen out of the writinges and discourses of Odoardo Lopez a Portingall by Philippo Pigafetta. Translated out of Italian by Abraham Hartwell.
Lopes, Duarte. | Date: 1597