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Compare 1587 edition: 1 EEBO page image 2Gathelus therefore being certified hereof, and giuing credite to the Oracles aforeſayde, determi|ned out of hande to forſake the countrey,Gathelus lea|uing Egypt, ſeeketh other countreyes. and ſeeke him a new place of abode in ſome other partyes, of the worlde. Wherefore he cauſed a number of ſhippes to be rigged, and all neceſſarie puruey|ance to be prouided,, and when the ſame was once readie and all things ſet in order, he tooke with him his wife and children, and a great multitude of people both Greekes and Egyptians, whom he embarqued in thoſe ſhippes,Gathelus de|pa [...]ting was, Anno mundi. 2453. W.H. 3643. H.B. and hoyſing vp ſayles, departed out of the mouth of the riuer Ni|lus, in the yeare of the worldes creation 2453. when hee had dwelled in Egypt .39. yeares and more.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Beeing thus departed, after ſome trouble in the voyage, they arriued firſt on the coaſtes of Nu|mydia,He was repul|ſed in Barbary whiche is one of the regions of Affrike, now called Barbarie: but beyng put backe from thence by the ſtowte reſiſtaunce of the inhabitauntes, they tooke the Seas agayne, and landed in a part of Spayne, whiche long after was called Luſitania.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 He landed in Portingale.There be that haue written how it ſhould be cleped Port Gathele of this Gathelus, and certaine yeares after Luſitania, and eftſoones agayne in a maner to haue got the former name being ſome|what corruptly called Portingale. But who is able in a mater of ſuch auncientie to auowche any thing for truth?

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