. Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others . itions. Therefore preparing their Boat and victuallingit, they were compelled to depart. In foure monethesthey came to a King of India, through sandie and shallowplaces of the Sea. The other perished in a tempest: Iam-bulus was driven into a certaine Village, and carried bythe Inhabitants to the King into the Citie Palibothra farredistant from the Sea. The King loved Graecians, andgreatly esteemed their Learning; hee gave him manythings, and first sen
. Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others . itions. Therefore preparing their Boat and victuallingit, they were compelled to depart. In foure monethesthey came to a King of India, through sandie and shallowplaces of the Sea. The other perished in a tempest: Iam-bulus was driven into a certaine Village, and carried bythe Inhabitants to the King into the Citie Palibothra farredistant from the Sea. The King loved Graecians, andgreatly esteemed their Learning; hee gave him manythings, and first sent him safely into Persia, and theninto Greece. Afterward Iambulus writ these things, andmany things concerning India before unknowne to others. Chap. IX. Great Alexanders Life, Acts, Peregrinations andConquests briefly related. Ing Alexander, as they report, derived hisPedigree by the Father from Hercules,by the mother from iEacus; from theone descended his Father Philip, and fromthe other his Mother Olympia. Sheethe first night of her Nuptials dreamedthat she saw Lightning enter into her thence a great flame presently kindled. His Wombe, and Philip also not long after seemed in his sleepe to sealehis wives belly, the Seale engraven with a Lion. By theseAristander the Diviner foretold that shee was with childe,because a Seale useth not to be set on emptie things: alsothat shee should bring forth a child, who should have thenature and spirit of a Lion. But when a while afterPhilip in the night saw through a cranie of the doorea Dragon lying by her, it abated his love to her, fearingMagicall Charmes, or the familiaritie of some Olympias counselled Alexander that hewould assume a minde worthy of his father. Others say,that shee said Alexander would make her (by challengingto bee Jupiters sonne) hatefull to Juno. On the Ides ofAugust she was delivered of Alexander, who although he 220 ALEXANDER THE GREAT were of a goodly feature, yet he bowed his neck
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