Part 34

Ombi, men-eaters, i. 142

Ophir, voyage to, account of, i. 433

Osiris not the sun, but the dog-star, i. 412

Oustas usurps the throne, ii. 540

---- favourable to the Catholic religion, ii. 569

---- deposed, ii. 572

Paez Peter enters Abyssinia, ii. 244

---- converts Za Denghel, ii. 245

---- builds a convent at Gorgora, ii. 266

---- converts Socinios, ii. 344

---- his death and character, ii. 344

---- his pretensions to discover the source of the Nile confuted, iii. 617

Palestine, various nations fled from it, i. 399

Palmyra, ruins, introd. 57

Papyrus, ships made of it, i. 370

---- description of it, app. 1

Petronius Arbiter improves Egypt, iii. 696

Polygamy, cause of its origin, i. 281

Poncet sent to Abyssinia, ii. 467

---- account of his travels, ii. 469

---- recovers the king of Abyssinia, ii. 478

Poncet, his journal vindicated, vol. ii. p. 492

Portugal, attempts to discover the East Indies, ii. 96

---- sends an embassy to Abyssinia, ii. 103

---- receives an embassy from Abyssinia, ii. 133

---- sends a reinforcement to David III., ii. 142

---- unsuccessful issue of the expedition, ii. 157

---- sends a second reinforcement to the king of Abyssinia, ii. 181