Quotes:Purchas, Samuel

Zirkoff, Boris

Purchas, Samuel (1575?-1626). English compiler of works on travel and discovery, b. at Thaxted, Essex; studied at Cambridge and Oxford; became, 1614, rector of St. Martin’s, Ludgate, London. His information is not always accurate, but some of his works are the only source upon questions on the history of exploration. His largest work in four volumes is Hakluytus Posthumus (1625). He also wrote two other works, both entitled *Purchas, his Pilgrimage, etc., one in 1616 and the other in 1619.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, p. 518