Pvrchas his pilgrimes. : In five 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, to the Cape of Good Hope, and from thence to the Red Sea, the Abassine, Arabian, Persian, INdian, shoares, continents, and islands. The fourth, English voyages beyond the East Indies, to the ilands [sic] of Iapan, China, Cauchinchina, the Philippinæ with others, and the Indian nauigations further prosecuted; their iust commerce, nobly vindicated against Turkish treacherie; victoriously defended against Portugall hostilitie; gloriously aduanced against Moorish and ethnike perfidie; hopefully recouering from Dutch malignitie; iustly maintayned against ignorant and malicious calumnie. The fifth, nauigations, voyages, traffiques, discoueries, of the English nation in the easterne parts of the world: continuing the English-Indian occurrents, and contayning the English affaires with the great Samorine, in the Persian and Arabian gulfes, and in other places of the continent, and ilands of and beyond the Indies: the Protugall attempts, and Dutch disasters, diuers sea-fights with both; and many other remarkable relations. ...