THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



bassador to England (1567) iii. 98; 

 and Queen Elizabeth's letters, 



lOI. 



Pogosa, ni. 409. 



Poiassa, mountain in Russia, iii. 



Poictou, see Poitou. 



Pointed Cape, the, discovered by 

 Jacques Cartier (1534) vin. 190. 



Pointer, Richard, assistant to the 

 Muscovy Company, 11, 307. 



Pois, Forforeine, weight in Alex- 

 andria (1584) V. 272 ; Gerrin, 

 weight in Alexandria (1584) 273. 



Poisons made by the Indians of 

 Cumana (1565) x. 28; Indian, 

 Tupara root useful against, 397. 



Poitou, battle of Poitiers in, Mat- 

 thew Gourney at, iv. 444. 



Pol, son of Boke, viscount of Skye, 

 I. 35 f. 



Pola, Henry Austell at (1585) v. 

 322. 



Polambo, town in Java Major, xi. 

 370. 



Poland, I. 77, 89, 256; Ordu and, 

 74; John de Piano Carpini and, 

 94, n. 386; Tartars and, i. 153; 

 John de Piano Carpini through, 

 ^59' 179 f league between the 

 Dutch knights and, 11. 3, 11; war 

 between the Dutch knights and, 

 9; history of, by Herbortus Ful- 

 stinius, 186; war with Russia, 

 188, 438; cloth made in, 383 ; Eng- 

 lish wares in, in. 13; letter of 

 Sigismund, King of, to Queen 

 Elizabeth, 99-100; conquests of, 

 from Russia, 359 ; William Har- 

 borne in (1578) v. 168; Acmet 

 Chaus, Turkish ambassador to 

 (1578) 168; chancellor of, and Wil- 

 liam Harborne (1588) vi. 58; 

 kingdom of, peace with Turkey 

 (1590) 69. 



Pole, Antarctic, 11. 163. 



Pole, North, i. 6; only way to un- 

 discovered lands, II, 161 ; naviga- 

 tion under the, 162, 176; Sebas- 

 tian Cabot's voyage to the (1497) 

 VII. 152 ; difficulties of navigation 

 near the, 175; sun's heat at the, 

 177 ; Robert Thome's advice about 

 discovery (c. 1527) viii. i ; the 



canon of S. Paul's, and the expedi- 

 tion to the (1527) 2. 



Polecats in Florida, x. 59. 



Poledenga, silver Russian coin, 11. 



273- 

 Polerwan, ships from, in Edward 



III.'s fleet, I. 298. 

 Poles, II. 7; Tartars and, i. 161; 



Russian conquests over, 11. 423 ; 



or Polacks, etvmology of, iii. 



389. 

 Poles, small Russian copper coin, 



II. 273. 

 Poles, temperate climate at the, vii. 



271 

 Polisacus fluvius, vii. 179. 

 Polison, Michael, in Virginia (1585) 



VIII. 318. 

 Poll, or head money. Englishmen in 



Turkey free from (1580) v. 187. 

 Pollard, Thomas, mate of the Jesus, 



cruelty to sailors of Sir John 



Hawkins (1568) ix. 409. 

 Polo, Andrea de, and Caesar Fred- 

 erick (c. 1563) V. 445, 446. 

 Polo, Marco, the Venetian (1254- 



1324), on spelling of Cathay, i. 



144; accounts of the travels of^ 



XII. 12. 

 Polonia, see Poland. 

 Polonians, see Poles. 

 Polooy Carawool, 120 versts, iii. 120. 

 Polotzko taken by Russia (1563- 



1579) HI. 100. 

 Polskoy, wing of Russian army, iii. 



380, 383. 

 Polumbrum, city of, in Malabar, iv. 



413 ; burning of the dead in, 419. 

 Polydore, ' English History ' by, v. 



125- 



Pomary, Steven, in Virginia (i585y 

 VIII. 317. 



Pomeiock, Pomeiok, city, on the 

 Occam in Virginia, viii. 306; Sir 

 Richard Grenville at (1585) 316; 

 John White and, 394. 



Pomer, see Pomerania. 



Pomeraies, Pommeraze, see Pomer- 

 ania. 



Pomerania, Suandepolcus, Duke of, 

 against Christians, 11. 4; William 

 Harborne through (1588) vi. 58; 

 ship of, captured by the English, 

 VII. 2 ; Charles of, in the Great 



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