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** Transcriber's Notes **
The printed edition from which this e-text has been produced retains thespelling and abbreviations of Hakluyt's 16th-century original. In thisversion, the spelling has been retained, but the following manuscriptabbreviations have been silently expanded:
- vowels with macrons = vowel + 'n' or 'm'- q; = -que (in the Latin)- y'e = the; y't = that; w't = with
This edition contains footnotes and two types of sidenotes. Most footnotesare added by the editor. They follow modern (19th-century) spellingconventions. Those that don't are Hakluyt's (and are not alwayssystematically marked as such by the editor). The sidenotes are Hakluyt'sown. Summarizing sidenotes are labelled [Sidenote: ] and placed before thesentence to which they apply. Sidenotes that are keyed with a symbol arelabeled [Marginal note: ] and placed at the point of the symbol, except inpoetry, where they are placed at a convenient point. Additional notes oncorrections, etc. are signed 'KTH'
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Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques
Discoveries
Collected by
Edited by
Principall Secretarie to her Maiestie, Master of the Court of Wards and
Liueries, and one of her Maiesties most honourable Priuie Councell.
Right honourable, your fauourable acceptance of my second volume of theEnglish voyages offred vnto you the last yere, your perusing of the same atyour conuenient leasure, your good testimony of my selfe and of mytrauailes therein, together with the infallible signes of your earnestdesire to doe mee good, which very lately, when I thought least thereof,brake forth into most bountiful and acceptable effects: theseconsiderations haue throughly animated and encouraged me to present vntoyour prudent censure this my third and last volume also. The subiect andmatter herein contained is the fourth part of the world, which morecommonly then properly is called America: but by the chiefest Authors Thenew world. New, in regard of the new and late discouery thereof made byChristopher Colon, aliàs Columbus, a Genouois by nation, in the yere ofgrace 1492. And world, in respect of the huge extension thereof, which tothis day is not throughly discouered, neither within the Inland nor in thecoast, especially toward the North and Northwest, although on the eitherside it be knowen vnto vs for the space of fiue thousand leagues at theleast, compting and considering the trending of the land, and for 3000.more on the backeside in the South Sea from the Streight of Magellan toCape Mendoçino and Noua Albion. So that it seemeth very fitly to be calledA newe worlde. Howbeit it cannot be denied but that Antiquitie had somekinde of dimme glimse, and vnperfect notice thereof. Which may appeare bythe relation of Plato in his two worthy dialogues of Timæus and Critiasvnder the discourse of that mighty large yland called by him Atlantis,lying in the Ocean sea without the Streight of Hercules, now called theStraight of Gibraltar, being (as he there reporteth) bigger then Africa andAsia: And