Purchas his pilgrimage, or, Relations of the vvorld and the religions obserued in al ages and places discouered, from the Creation vnto this present

in foure parts : this first contayneth a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent : declaring the ancient religions before the Floud, the heathenish, Jewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since, in those parts professed, with their seuerall opinions, idols, oracles, temples, priests, fasts, feasts, sacrifices, and rites religious : their beginnings, proceedings, alterations, sects, orders, and successions : with briefe descriptions of the coun

Samuel Purchas