_ 67 _ of Sofala, further inland that all the others and that of Mozambique, 580 leagues from the Cape of Good Hope, and the fortress of Mombasa on the Malindicoast, which His Majesty commanded to be built when Mathias de Albuquerque was viceroy of India. This Monomotapa is also the land of the sources of the Nile, which flows through the land of Abyssinia and which the ancients took as the dividing line between Africa and Asia, not realizing that the Strait from Ormuz to Basra was more appropriate. The distance is less from its end to the Mediterranean Sea than from the sources to the ocean, so this makes Asia a more convenient size and Africa more extensive, with both the Arabias together. These seem like unity because of the climate, the inhabitants are similar in size, the horses in beauty, the cattle and all other animals are alike, such as zebras, rhinoceroses, and unicorns which do not exist in other regions. The King of Monomotapa being very affable towards the Portuguese, he invited Fr. Gonçalo Coutinho, of the Society of Jesus, who was well received by him, and he was baptized, together with his mother and some princes of his household.
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