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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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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Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.
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London :: Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Rose,
1625.
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Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68617.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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  • BAbels Confusion, 29
  • Babilon, the Metropolis of the Iewes, 51
  • Baboones greater then women, and little differing from their shape, 79
  • Bacchus his seuerall names, his Priests, 23. His trauels; with di∣uers his famous exploits, 68.69
  • Bagisara a Harbour in India, 87
  • ...Ballas, 38
  • Baptisme euery yeere vsed by the Aethiopians, & the reason there∣of, 148
  • Baptisme in the Greeke Church, 158
  • Barbarians vanquished by Alexan∣der, 12
  • Barna a Towne where are Gardens of Myrrhe, flowres, culture of trees &c. 87
  • Bartholomew the Apostle, his preaching, life, death, &c. 55
  • Bay called Hesperus his horne; wherein a great Iland; in the I∣land a Lake, and in it another I∣land full of Woods, when in the night are kindled fires, and heard the noise of Cimbals, Drums, and infinite shouts. 78
  • Beasts fed with fish, 87. A beast so bigge that hee deuoureth a whole Elephant, 89
  • Beda translated some part of the Scriptures into the Saxon or Eng∣lish tongue, 145
  • Beemoth and Leuiathan a Iewish tale of them, 123
  • Belgian Bishoprickes, 172
  • Benedictine Order beyond the Ie∣suiticall, 174
  • Benomotapa a great Kingdome in Africk, 113
  • Bessus his murthering of Darius, his torture, 84
  • Bion the Philosopher, 75
  • Bishops how differing from the A∣postles, 52. Religion reomforted by them, 62
  • Bishopricks of the Roman Prouince 168. & sequitur, Bishopricks in India, 173. Bishoprickes in Spaine, France, Low-countries, Germany, Switzer, Hungaria, Poland, Prussia, England, Scot∣land, Denmarke, Sweden, 170.171.172.173.
  • ...Bohemia, 172
  • Books of strange kinds of paper, 179
  • Brachmans, their manner of liuing, they haue no instrument to worke, no beasts, tillage, vse of Iron: they alwayes worship God; al∣wayes pray looking to Heauen; they eate what they finde on the ground; the men liue of on side Ganges, the women on the o∣ther, to whom their husbands haue recourse certaine monethes, &c. 89
  • Berewood his Enquiries of Lan∣guages, 95. of Religions professed in the World, 112
  • Bread made of the meale of rosted fi∣shes, 87
  • Bread for the Greekes Eucharist, called pure bread, made by a pure woman or man, 156
  • Britaine in Caesars time, 30
  • Bubarta, a small Iland, 87
  • Bucephalus Alexanders fierce Horse, 82
  • Bucephalia a Citie built by Alex∣ander where his Horse Bucepha∣lus dyed, 84
  • Byscaines among the Spaniards boast that they are the right Hi∣dalgos or Gentlemen, 107
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