Purchas his pilgrimes. part 1 In fiue bookes. The first, contayning the voyages and peregrinations made by ancient kings, patriarkes, apostles, philosophers, and others, to and thorow the remoter parts of the knowne world: enquiries also of languages and religions, especially of the moderne diuersified professions of Christianitie. The second, a description of all the circum-nauigations of the globe. The third, nauigations and voyages of English-men, alongst the coasts of Africa ... The fourth, English voyages beyond the East Indies, to the ilands of Iapan, China, Cauchinchina, the Philippinæ with others ... The fifth, nauigations, voyages, traffiques, discoueries, of the English nation in the easterne parts of the world ... The first part.

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• LAcides the Philosopher, 75
• Land not leuell, where the high∣est, 125
• Languages, a discourse of the con∣fusion thereof, 29. The Langua∣ges of seuerall Nations, 95.96. Et seq. Foureteene Languages or Mother tongues in Europe, be∣sides Latine, which remaine not onely not abolished, but little or nothing al••ered by the Ro∣mans, 100
• Latine tongue, the Antiquitie, dig∣nitie and extent thereof, 98.99
• Latine abolished not the vulgar lan∣guages in the forreine Prouinces of the Roman Empire, 100
• Latine not vulgarly spoken in all places of the Roman Empire, 102
• Latine degenerating into other lan∣guages, 103. Threefold corrup∣tion thereof 104. Obiections con∣cerning the extent of the Latine tongue with their solutions, 105
• Latine Alphabet, 180
• Learning receiued by Printing, 63
• Lebanon a cragged and steepe Mountaine couered continually with Snow, 140
• Legends burthensome to the Church, 55
• Lents obserued amongst the Greekes 154. Foure Lents euery yeere, 155. Et seq.
• Leonard Bishop of Sidon his Relati∣ons of the Iacobites, 150
• Letters the diuersitie thereof vsed by the diuerse Nations in the world, the Antiquitie, manifold vse and varietie thereof, with Ex∣emplary

• descriptions of aboue three seuerall Alphabets, with o∣ther strange writings, 176.
• ...Et seq.
• Letters 28. vsed by the Inhabitants of the Iland of Iambulus, but se∣uen Characters, 80
• Librarie at Cairo very famous, 1••1
• Lice leaue men and die when they arriue at the Indies, 20
• Liturgies of Christians in the seue∣rall parts of the world, in what language celebrated, 142, 143.
• ...Et seq.
• Loadstone, 26.38. whither Salomon knew the vse thereof. 27
• ...Loraine, 171
• Lord of all God, 7. The poorest Sl••••e Lord, 7
• ...Low-Countries, 172