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age to (1565) 44-53; fourth, 136- 

 142; fifth, 150-157; sixth, 212-247; 

 Anthony Jenkinson's first voyage 

 to (1562) 18; description of, 35; 

 products of, 53, 139; privi- 

 leges granted to English mer- 

 chants in (1567) 64; trade in arms 

 in, 67; trade started by the Mus- 

 covy Company in, 86, 88; English 

 trade in, 109-117, 145, 401; Arthur 

 Edwards in, 136 ; privileges granted 

 to Muscovy Company in (1568) 

 144; wares of, brought to England, 

 147; inferior in power to Turkey, 

 160; severity of law, 161; Lent 

 in, 162; troubles in, 217, 234, 235; 

 war between Constantinople and 

 {1177) IV. 316; products of, 410; 

 seragni and tutia found in, vi. 25 ; 

 opopponax, etc., in, 26; Gal- 

 banum in, 27; retinue of the Beg- 

 lerbeg of, 67; grass silk found in, 

 VIII. 353; climate of, 384; gulf of, 

 III. 161, V. 371, VII. 176, 

 VIII. 128; Thome's map of, 

 II. 170; Ralph Fitch in the (1583) 

 V. 468. 



Persian language in Bokhara, 11. 

 470; trade in Syria, 478; products, 

 "I. 53. 



Persians, Alii, son-in-law of Maho- 

 met, prophet of the, v. 364 ; re- 

 ligion of the VI. Ill, 112. 



Persicus Sinus, see Persian Gulf. 



Pert, Sir Thomas, voyage of, and 

 Sebastian Cabot to Brazil, etc. 

 (1516) X. 2-6; and the North-west 

 passage (15 17) xii. 20. 



Pertinax, ^lius, parentage of, viii. 

 469. 



Peru, heat of, compared to heat of 

 Paris, VII. 258; discovery of, 464; 

 conquest by Francisco Pizarro, 

 VIII. 95, 124, XI. 279; in Southern 

 America, latitude of, viii. 450; 

 Spanish traffic from Mexico to 

 (1570) IX. 365; New Spain cloth 

 sold in (1572) 390; savages or 

 natives of (1581) x. 38; small- 

 pox and plague in (1590) 171 ; 

 New Spain and, distress of, and 

 the King of Spain's want of 

 money (1590) 173; silver mines in 

 (1590) 177; the Orinoco river in, 



408 ; mountains of, Amazon river's 

 source in, xi. 16; distance from 

 Santos to, 38; passage overland 

 from Cartagena to, 236; conquest 

 of, by Gonzalo Pizarro, 241 ; 

 Don Fernando de Gusman, king 

 of, 245; description of, 281; con- 

 quered by Spain, xii. 20; produce 

 of the mines of, brought to 

 Nombre de Dios, 52 ; viceroy 

 of, and John Oxenham and his 

 sailors (1575) x. 80, xi. 232; and 

 Captain John Drake (1583) 95. 



Perularia, treasure from Peru kept 

 in Sevile, x. 3. 



Peruleros, or merchants of Peru in 

 the Rio de Janeiro (1596) xi. 41. 



Pery, John, distress of, at Port De- 

 sire (1592) XI. 399. 



Pery Pasha at the siege of Rhodes 

 (1522) V. 23. 



Pescadores (off African coast), lati- 

 tude of. Sir x'^nthony Sherley ill 

 at (1596) X. 267. 



Pescadores, Los, port on the coast of 

 Peru, Sir Francis Drake at, xi. 

 261. 



Pescadores, Os Baixos dos. Captain 

 Gualle at (1584) ix. 333.^ 



Pesce columbini, description of, v. 

 92. 



Pesmarck Harbour, the Grace in 

 (1594) VIII. 165. 



Pesmes, Gerard, his voyage to Syria 

 (1240) IV. 352. 



Pet, Arthur, pilot, i. xl. ; mariner on 

 the Edward Bonaventure (1553) ii. 

 214; of Ratcliffe, master of the 

 George, iii. 251; admiral, 253; his 

 behaviour towards foreign nations, 

 255 ; advice to, by William 

 Borough, 259-262 ; by Dee, 262- 

 263 ; by Richard Hakluyt, 264- 

 275; discoveries made by (1580) 

 282-303 ; North-east voyage by, xii. 



Pet, Peter, and the repairing of the 

 Minion (1561) vi. 255, (1564) 262. 



Petance, near Burgos, vi. 491. 



Petatlan, companions of Friar Marco 

 de Ni^a at, ix. 125, 126; Indians 

 of, 120. 



Petchingo Abbey, see Pechingo. 



Peter IV., King of Aragon, iv. 368; 



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