Transcriber’s note: Footnotes have been moved to the end of each chapter and relabeled consecutively through the document. Illustrations have been moved to paragraph breaks near where they are mentioned. Punctuation has been made consistent. Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except that obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Changes have been made as follows: p. 160: Goliah changed to Goliath (meet Goliath; I) p. 232: Coroes changed to Cosroes (608 Cosroes, king)