Fardle of Facions

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie (1555)

A translation of Johann Boemus's Omnium Gentium Mores, Legus, et Ritus (1520), William Waterman's Fardle of Facions provides a description of Ethiopia and refers to the kingdom of Prester John, who is here called "Pretoianes" or "Presbiter Ihon". Most notably, Prester John is here described "not as the moste of the Ethiopians are, blacke, but white."  Brooks (pp. 299-302) excerpts the relevant sections on the Priest-king from Waterman's English translation.  

As Brooks notes, Richard Hakluyt included large portions of Waterman's Fardle in his 1589 and 1600 editions of the Principall Navigations. 
 

Read the full text of the Fardle of Facions online.