First English edition "The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto" London 1653 - China, India, Ethiopia archive 5 in the UK

5 in the UK

vulgo Abbisinorum sive Presbiteri Ioannis Imperium

and outlawed hacking and handball (unlike the rival Rugby School rules)

was deeply involved in Māori affairs through his long government service and as author of The Ancient History of the Māori (1887–91)

Books of hours were personal prayer books used for daily contemplation and prayer

First English edition "The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto" London 1653 - China, India, Ethiopia archive 5 in the UKThe voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, a Portugal, during his travels for the space of one and twenty years in the Kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchinchina, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a great part of the East Indies. With a relation and description of most of the places thereof ; their religion, laws, riches, customs, and government in time of peace and war : where he five times suffered shipwrack, was sixteen times