. Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others . kes, Apostles, Philo-sophers, and others, To and thorow TheRemoter Parts of the Knowne World:Enquiries also of Languages andReligions The Voyages & Peregrinations p. i. i.] made by Antient 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 diversified Prosessions of Christianitie THE FIRST BOOKE Chap. I. A large Treatise of Kin
. Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others . kes, Apostles, Philo-sophers, and others, To and thorow TheRemoter Parts of the Knowne World:Enquiries also of Languages andReligions The Voyages & Peregrinations p. i. i.] made by Antient 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 diversified Prosessions of Christianitie THE FIRST BOOKE Chap. I. A large Treatise of King Salomons Navie sent fromEziongeber to Ophir : Wherein, besides theTypicall Mysteries briefly unvailed, and manyMorall Speculations observed; the voyage islargely discussed out of Divine, Ecclesiasticalland Humane Testimonies: Intended as an his-toricall Preface to the Histories following. Ntending to present the World to theWorld in the most certaine view, Ithought a world of Authors fitter forthat purpose, then any One Authorwriting of the World: whose discoursemight haply bee more even, facile,methodicall, and contracted to a more. compendious forme ; but could not avoid to be dispendious(if I may so speake) in the matter, and to suspend PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES the Readers judgement for the authoritie. Oculatustestis unus praeestat auritis decern. I had rather heare Plaut. the meanest of Ulysses his followers relating hiswanderings, then wander from the certaintie withHomer after all his readings and conjectures. Lo herethen (after my Pilgrimage of the former Nature, forsuch as better like that course) in open Theatre pre-sented a Shew of Discoveries on an English Stage,wherein the World is both the Spectacle andSpectator; the Actors are the Authors themselves, each [I. i. 2.] presenting his owne actions and passions in that kind,kindly (in generous and genuine History) acting theiracts; not affectedly straining, or scenic-all-ly playing Terent. their part; the Arts indeed of
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