Schöner called the continent "Brasiliae Australis" in his 1533 tract, "Opusculum geographicum". In it, he explained: Brasilia Australis is an immense region toward Antarcticum, newly discovered but not yet fully surveyed, which extends as far as Melacha and somewhat beyond. The inhabitants of this region lead good, honest lives and are not Anthropophagi like other barbarian nations; they have no letters, nor do they have kings, but they venerate their elders and offer them obedience; they give the name Thomas to their children [after St Thomas the Apostle; close to this region lies the great island of Zanzibar at 102.00 degrees and 27.30 degrees South.