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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• ...NAbuchodonosor, 73
• Nations now 〈◊〉〈◊〉, which for∣merly were very barbarous, 59
• Natures inheritance greater riches then the greatest Kings benefi∣cence, 10
• Nauigation, the lawfulnesse thereof proued from Salomon, 4. The ne∣cessitie, commoditie, dignitie there∣of, 17, 18, 19.62, 63
• Nearchus his Voyage, and Fleet set foorth by Alexander the Great, from the Riuer Indus to the bot∣tome of the Persian Gulfe, 86, 87. Et seq. His Voyage from Indus to Tygris, honoured by A∣lexander, 88
• Negroes Countrey, 78. Merry Ne∣groes, 79
• Nestorians scattered farre and wide in the East, their Patriarch, Reli∣gion, and heresie, 131. Their o∣pinions and rites, 132, 133. They celebrate their Liturgie in the Chaldee or Syriake tongue, 145. Difference betwixt them and the Greekes, 165
• Niniue builded by Ninus; the state∣linesse of the building▪ &c. 72
• Ninus his Marches, Trauels, and Conquests, 72
• No new thing vnder the Sunne, how to bee vnderstood, 26
• Normans seeking to destroy the Eng∣lish tongue, 100
• North parts discouered, 77
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• Nosa an Ile sacred to the Sun, of which it was reported that if any went on shore, he should neuer be seen after, but Nearchus found it false by experiment 88. Another tale was that a Nimph dwelt there which lay with Men and after turned them into Fishes, 88
• Nubia a large Region in Africk, hauing from the Apostles time professed the Christian Faith, it hath againe aboue a•• 100. yeeres since forsaken it, 112. Want of Ministers the cause thereof; the Nubians their petition for supply. 113. The Nubians that are yet Chri∣stian their Religion, and obedience to the Patriarch of Alexandria, 137.