HAK 
Cairo, by fire, be delivered the reft to pillage, which caufed 
-the moft plooily tefts between the foldiery and thofe in- 
habitants, aire Seer snieey death to the quiet me ern of 
their property. Nae one time he affected a und reve- 
rence for the Mahometan religion, and ndiies ee founder 
of mofques and colleges. He had upwards of twelve hun- 
of the Koran tranfcribed at his own expence 
in letters ud gold, and he- rooted up all the vines of Upper 
rypt, in order to prevent the manufaciure of wine, the 
ule of hich was prohibited by the prophet. His vanity 
foon induced him to afpire to ftill higher honours : he ity ied 
himfelf the vifible image of the true earth, 
the honours of adoration to his perfon, and-caufed 
the myfteries of his worfhip to be performed on a mountain 
near Cairo. When ki 
ixteen thoufand perfons very foon fanétioned, 
their practices, the abfurdities of Hakem: but what. is 
ps A sal is this, that the Drufes of Mount: 
Libanus, even at the prefent day, retain a perfuafion of the 
aia exiftence of the et fee as they denominate 
him, the prophet Ha em. Under of a new reli- 
aa: 
of Ren : “the common rights and peaegal 
not follow him in his abfurdities were equally di 
oundati tions. After this he pretended fome com- 
pevtintice, and ordered the reftitution of the 
aud bei g unable longer to endure his tyranny, put an end 
8 lite and re neon ac Rega tat od at the head of which 
defence, 
“HAKEWELL, Groreg, in Biography, was born at 
“in the year 1579. Having laid a found- 
ok elementary learning, he went firft to “St. —_— 
Stem and then to Exeter colle arfue 
in, he wrote a a treatife a againit the i in-’ 
‘age po on was projected between his pupil 
-; tranflation Portuguefe z 
Hiflory of Dileoveries," and in a few ‘years a 
Soto’s “ Defcription of Florida.” 
BO 
” HAL 
tion of the Power and Providence of God in the Govern. 
ment of the World, proving it doth not decay,” folio: he 
publithed, likewife, twelve fermons on David’s vow to reform 
himfelf, his family, and his kingdom: “ A Treatife on Con: 
frat and many fingle fermons, and controverfi al tracts. : 
Biog. Brit. Toulinin’ s Edit. o 
A 
N.E. Allo, a viver of the fame country, 
which runs into the Zab ; ; 2omiles.W. of Erbil. 
MPOUR, a town of Bengal ; 11 miles E.N. E. 
of Mehmu dpour. 
HAKLUYT, Riviadn in Biography, was born in or 
near London about the year 1 He 
Weittminfer Scieceils and, being accuftomed. to vifit an 
uncle greatly attached to maritime purfuits, he ac 
quired a talte for geographical and nay sai “enguite 
— at 0 oh became his ruling pafli his 
jensen cet read public le 
the fciences aaa wit th it. 
this courfe of leGtur 
In 1582 Mis: 
tion of Voyages and Difcoverics,”” Which p rocur 
commiffion f om the fecretary of ftate to confer with fome — 
~ merchants of Briftol refpe¢ting an expedition to Newfound-. 
land and the ys parts. He next en; 
ged as chaplain 
to fir Edward Stafford, in an embafly to My ene where he 
remained oe ears. Here he cultivated an acquaintance 
with a ons eminent for the branches of {cience to whiclt 
he had attached himfelf, and procured a French ace 
ov 
the Welt Indies,’ by Mr. Lock. Upon his'return from ~ 
e continent in 1 588, oe was nominated by fir Walter Ra-- 
tion of adventurers, to whom. he 
accounts and documents of voyages 
wing eg he pub- 
Ferdinand 
his laft 
= This was 
~~ os year. font and | was Bees Woh; 
