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Days and Hours how measur'd in this strange Country before
the Invention of Clocks, 91, &c.
Days thought to be all alike, 99.
Deluge, whether Universal or only Partial, 241, &c. to 245.
_Descartes_'s Works, Reflections on them, 6, 7.

E.
Eagle-baiting, a yearly Ceremony, 79.
Earth, its Motions describ'd, 53, 54, 137.
Earth, its Motion further illustrated, 162 to 165.
Earthquake and a Tempest describ'd, 235.
Eclipses defin'd, 58, 59.
Empress, which of the King's Wives has that Name, 153:
Her Delivery of a Son, and the Ceremonies on that Occasion,
152, 153, &c.

F.

Father's remarkable Quarrel with his Son, and the Decision of
it, 157 to 160.
Funerals, an Account of them, 167.

G.
_Galileo_, his Sufferings from the Court of Inquisition, 7.
Gall-nut, a Description of that Fruit, 272.
Glass, the Want of it how supply'd, 130.
_Goa_ City, its Description and Inhabitants, 251, 254.
How our Author was frighten'd in his Bed at one of the Inns,
252, &c.
His Practice there in Surgery, 254.
His Imprisonment in the Inquisition, 255.
His Discourse with a _Chinese_ Prisoner about Religion, 256, &c.
His Defence before the Inquisition, and Condemnation to the
Galleys for Life, 273, 274.
How he was taken by a Pirate, and carry'd to _Algier_, 276.
His Redemption from Slavery, 300.
Goats large and strong us'd for Draught, 82.
Story of an unruly one, 88.
GOD, by what Name he, is call'd in this unknown Country, 93.
Their Opinion of the Divine Being, 98, 118, 119.

H.
Hair, long, a Dissertation upon it, and why our Author consented
to have his cut off, 29, 30.
Heat and Cold, what they consist in, 59, 61.
Heaven, a crude Notion of it, 114.
_Heudde, Peter_, how he bit _Vandyke_ a _Dutch_ Factor at _Lisbon_,
32, &c. 302.
How he was, afterwards taken by the Pirates, 283.
How he pretended to make Gold, 306 to 309.
His own Narrative of his Rogueries, 301 to 313.

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