1563.—"The Turks are those of the province of Natolia, or (as we now say) Asia Minor; the Rumes are those of Constantinople, and of its empire."—Garcia De Orta, f. 7.
1572.—
"Persas feroces, Abassis, e Rumes,
Que trazido de Roma o nome tem...."
Camões, x. 68.
[By Aubertin:
"Fierce Persians, Abyssinians, Rumians,
Whose appellation doth from Rome descend....">[
1579.—"Without the house ... stood foure ancient comely hoare-headed men, cloathed all in red downe to the ground, but attired on their heads not much vnlike the Turkes; these they call Romans, or strangers...."—Drake, World Encompassed, Hak. Soc. 143.
1600.—"A nation called Rumos who have traded many hundred years to Achen. These Rumos come from the Red Sea."—Capt. J. Davis, in Purchas, i. 117.