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it is situate in a very coole and fresh It is replenished with Trees that are alwaies greene, and This Hand is inhabited with Mahometans also, which are of colour something whitish. They are well apparelled, and trimly adorned with Cloath of Silke and Cotton. Their Women doe use ornaments of Golde, and Jewels about their hands and their necks, and have good store of household-stuffe made of Silver. They are not altogether so blacke as the men are, and in their limbs they are very well proportioned. Their houses are made of Stone, and Lime, and Timber, very well wrought, and of good Architecture, with Gardens and Orchards, full of Hearbs and sundry Fruits. Of this Hand the whole King do me tooke the Name, which … is situate in nine degrees toward the South. … In old time the King do me of Quiloa was the chiefest of all the Principalities afford eth all varietie of Victuals.... there adjoyning, and stood neere to the Sea. But when the Portugals arrived in those Countries, the King trusted so much was able with his owne forces not onely to defend himselfe against them, but also to drive them to himselfe, that he thought he from those places which they had already surprised. Howbeit the matter fell out quite contrary. For when it came to Weapons, he was utterly overthrowne and discomfited by the Portugals, and so fled away. But they tooke and po e ed the Hand, and enriched themselves with the great spoyles and booties that they found therein.” (Pilgrimes 2. 1023.) Quiloa is mentioned in the Lusiads of Camoens. (1. 99; 10. 26.) Quirini Arx. Quint. Nov. 53. The citadel of Rome, on the Capitol {q. v.). Rabba. P. L. 1. 397. A city of Palestine, later known as Philadelphia, in the land east of Jordan, on the River Jabbok. It was such an important city of the Ammonites, that its name stands for the whole country in Jeremiah 49. When Milton wrote of the “watry plain,” he probably had in mind the fourth verse of this chapter: “Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?” Cf. also 2 Samuel 12. 27. The maps of the period place Rabbah as far north as the southern end of the Sea of Milton uses the Vulgate form, that in the Authorized Galilee. Version being Rabbah or Rabbath. Fuller says the name means “great or spacious,” which perhaps accounts for Milton’s word “plain,” There are plains in the region of the city, but it was itself situated on a high hill. ch239.xhtml r 256