INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSON^. 



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Murad III., fourteenth Turkish sultan, 900, 918. 

 Murad IV., eighteenth Turkish sultan, 942, 951. 

 Murakami, dairo of Japan, 652, 656. 

 Murdoch, who first successfully employed gas-light- 

 ing, 1042. 

 Murillo, B. Estevan, Spanish painter, 965. 

 Murray, Io. And., botanist, 1031, 1034, 1036. 

 Murshid Kuli Khan, governor of Orissa, 1013. 

 Mus, P. Decius, Roman consul, 322. . 



Musaeus, ecclesiastical writer, 565 

 Musaeus, Greek poet, 169. 

 Musanus, early Christian writer, 529. 

 Muse Gilibi, sixth Turkish sultan, 801-2. 

 Musianus. early Christian writer, 534. 

 Musir ben Muhalhil, Arab traveller in Hindustan, 651. 

 Musonius Rufus, Greek philosopher, 498. 

 Mustafa, seventeenth Turkish sultan, 935, 942. 

 Mustafa II., twenty-third Turkish sultan, 991, 997. 

 Mustafa III , twenty-seventh Turkish suit., 1023, 1034. 

 Mustafa IV , thirtieth Turkish sultan, 1056-57. 

 Mutis, Ios. Celest., bot. on the Bogotan Andes, 1032. 

 Mycerinus, see Menkera. 

 Mycon, Greek painter, 281. 

 Mylus, Greek comic poet, 255. 

 Myrdhyn, or Merlin, Welsh bard, 609. 

 Myrepsus, see Nicolaus. 

 Myro of Byzantium, Greek poetess, 325. 

 Myrtilus, Greek comic poet, 28r. 

 Myson, one of the " seven sages " of Greece, 233. 



Naamah, daughter of Lamech, 3. 

 Nabonassar, king of Babylon, 212-13. 

 Nabonnedus, last king of Babylon, 240. 

 Nabopolassar, or Sardanapallus, Assyrian emp., 198, 



203, 228. 

 Nabuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, 231-32. 

 Nacaxoc, fifth Toltec king of Mexico, 640. 

 Nachmanides, Jewish kabalistic writer, 752. 

 Nachshon the gaon, Jewish astronomer, 639. 

 Nacht-en-ra, king of Egypt, 82. 

 Nadab, king of Israel, 191. 

 Nadius, king of Babylon, 213. 

 Naevius, Roman poet, 394. 

 Nagadaseka, Hindu king, 260, 267. 

 Nagarisingna, king of Burmah, 517. 

 Nahor, 100. 



Nahor, the younger, 103. 

 Nahshon, 136. 



Nahum, Jewish prophet, 222. 

 Nahusha, Hindu king, 93. 



Nanak Schah, founder of the sect of the Sikhs, 877. 

 Nanda, Hindu king, 321, 328, 337. 

 Nandaraza, king of Fugan in Burmah, 753. 

 Nan-keng, of the Chang, Chinese emperor, 120. 

 Nan-wang, of the Tcheou, Chinese emperor, 341, 371. 

 Napier, John, mathematician, 933. 

 Narapadisaethu, king of Pugan in Burmah, 719, 753. 

 Narcissus, thirtieth bishop of Jerusalem, 533, 535. 

 Narses, seventh Sasanid king of Persia, 544. 

 Narses the eunuch, Byzantine general, 584, 586. 

 Narvaez, Pamphilo de, early traveller along the shore 



of Texas, 869, 877. 

 Naser, Memluk sultan of Egypt, 760, 772, 774, 779,785. 

 Nasir-eddin Tousi, Persian geographer and astron., 723. 

 Nasir-u-din Mahmud, eighth sultan of Delhi, 736, 751. 



Nathan, Jewish prophet, 179. 

 Nauclerus, Joannes, chronographer, 858. 

 Naude, Gabriel, physician and critic, 948. 

 Nausicrates, Greek comic poet, 312. 

 Navarrete, Fernandez, missionary in the Malayan archi- 

 pelago, 959-60, 963. 

 Nayen, Tartar prince, 759. 

 Nazarius, Roman rhetor, 544. 

 Nazir Jung, ruler of the Deccan, 1020. 

 Neacles, Greek painter, 389. 

 Neander, Michael, 897. 

 Neanthes of Cyzicum, Greek historian, 382. 

 Nearchus, Greek navigator through the Persian Gulf, 



33°. 335. 337- 

 Nebuchadnezzar, see Nabuchadnezzar. 

 Neccham, Alexander, old English writer, 720. 

 Nechao, or Nechoh, see Neku. 

 Nechepsos, king of Egypt, 221. 

 Necherophis, king of Egypt, 65. 

 Necker, French minister of Finance, 1043. 

 Necker, N. Jos., botanist, 1027. 

 Nectanebus, king of Egypt, 303, 311-12. 

 Nectanebus II., last native king of Egypt, 312. 

 Nectarius, bishop of Constantinople, 554. 

 Nee, Luis, botanist in Mexico, 1045. 

 Needham, Turb., zoologist, 1027. 

 Nees von Esenbeck, C. G , botanist, 1067. 

 Nees von Esenbeck, T. F. L., botanist, 1062. 

 Nefirikera, king of Egypt, 70. 

 Nefruatep, king of Egypt, 92. 

 Nefruke, king of Egypt, 76. 

 Nefrukera, king of Egypt, 65. 

 Nefrukera II., king of Egypt, 76. 

 Nefrukera-chentu, king of Egypt, 76. 

 Nefrukera-nebi, king of Egypt, 76. 

 Nefrukera-pepi-seneb, king of Egypt, 76. 

 Nefrukera-rerele, king of Egypt, 76. 

 Nehemiah, governor of Jerusalem, 276, 281. 

 Neku, or Nechoh, or Nechao, king of Egypt, 222. 

 Neku II., king of Egypt, 22S. 

 Neledinsky-Meletzky, Russian poet, 1027. 

 Neleus, king of Pylos in Greece, 154, 157. 

 Neleus, leader of a Greek colony, 192. 

 Nelson, botanist in Northwest America, 1058. 

 Nelson, British admiral, 1050, 1055. 

 Nemesianus, Roman poet, 541. 

 Nentef, king of Egypt, 78. 

 Nentef II., king of Egypt, 78. 

 Nentef III., king of Egypt, So. 

 Nentef IV., king of Egypt, S2. 

 Neophron, Greek tragic poet, 268. 

 Neophytus, scholastic Greek writer, 711. 

 Neoptolemus, Greek general, 434. 

 Nepherheres, a later king of Egypt, 179. 

 Nepherites, king of Egypt, 292, 298. 

 Nepherites II., king of Egypt, 303. 

 Nepos, Cornelius, Roman historian, 446. 

 Nepos, Julius, Roman emperor of the West, 569. 

 Neriglissoor, king of Babylon, 239. 

 Nero, fifth Roman emperor, 482, 498. 

 Nerses Clajensis, Armenian poet, 705. 

 Nerva, Roman emperor, 518. 

 Nestor, son of Neleus, 157, 176. 

 Nestor of Tarsus, Greek philosopher, 456. 

 Nestor the Russian monk, earliest Slavonic hist., 680. 

 Nestorianus, Greek chronographer, 569. 



