Produced by Karl Hagen Juliet Sutherlandand the Online Distributed Proofreading Team Transcribers Notes The printed edition from which this etext has been produced retains thespelling and abreviations of Hakluyts 16thcentury 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 ye  the yt  that wt  withThis edition contains footnotes and two types of sidenotes Most footnotesare added by the editor They follow modern 19thcentury spellingconventions Those that dont are Hakluyts and are not alwayssystematically marked as such by the editor The sidenotes are Hakluytsown 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 moved to the nearest convenient break in the text End Transcribers Notes THE PRINCIPALNavigations Voyages Traffiques and DiscoveriesOF THE ENGLISH NATIONCollected byRICHARD HAKLUYT PREACHERANDEdited byEDMUND GOLDSMIDT FRHSNORTHERN EUROPEVOL IEDITORS PREFACEThis elaborate and excellent Collection which redounds as much to theglory of the English Nation as any book that ever was published hasalready had sufficient complaints made in its behalf against our sufferingit to become so scarce and obscure by neglecting to _republish_ it in afair impression with proper illustrations and especially an _Index_ Butthere may still be room left for a favourable construction of such neglectand the hope that nothing but the casual scarcity of a work so long sinceout of print may have prevented its falling into those able hands thatmight by such an edition have rewarded the eminent _Examples_ preservedtherein the _Collector_ thereof and _themselves_ according to theirdesertsThus wrote Oldys The British Librarian No III March 1737 page 137nearly 150 years ago and what has been done to remove this reproach Thework has become so rare that even a reckless expenditure of money cannotprocure a copy Footnote Mr Quantch the eminent Bibliopole is nowasking 42 for a copy of the 15981600 editionIt has indeed long been felt that a handy edition of the celebratedCollection of the Early Voyages Travels and Discoveries of the EnglishNation published by Richard Hakluyt 1598 1599 1600 was one of thegreatest desiderata of all interested in History Travel or Adventure Thelabour and cost involved have however hitherto deterred publishers fromattempting to meet the want except in the case of the very limited reprintof 180912 Footnote Of this edition 250 copies were printed on royalpaper and 75 copies on imperial paper As regards the labour involvedthe following brief summary of the contents of the Second Edition will givethe reader some idea of its extent I refer those who desire a completeanalysis to OldysVolume I 1598 deals with Voyages to the North and North East andcontains _One hundred and nine_ separate narratives from ArthursExpedition to Norway in 517 to the celebrated Expedition to Cadiz in thereign of good Queen Bess Amongst the chief voyages may be mentionedEdgars voyage round Britain in 973 an account of the Knights ofJerusalem Cabots voyages Chancellors voyages to Russia ElizabethsEmbassies to Russia Persia c the Destruction of the Armada c cVolume II 1599 treats of Voyages to the South and South East beginningwith that of the Empress Helena to Jerusalem in 337 The chief narrativesare those of Edward the Confessors Embassy to Constantinople The Historyof the English Guard in that City Richard Coeur de Lions travels AnthonyBecks voyage to Tartary in 1330 The English in Algiers and Tunis 1400Solymans Conquest of Rhodes Foxes narrative of his captivity Voyages toIndia China Guinea the Canaries the account of the Levant Company andthe travels of Raleigh Frobisher Grenville c It contains _One hundredand sixtyfive_ separate piecesVolume III 1600 has _Two hundred and fortythree different narratives_commencing with the fabulous Discovery of the West Indies in 1170 byMadoc Prince of Wales It contains the voyages of Columbus of Cabot andhis Sons of Davis Smith Frobisher Drake Hawkins the Discoveries ofNewfoundland Virginia Florida the Antilles c Raleighs voyages toGuiana Drakes great Voyage travels in South America China Japan andall countries in the West an account of the Empire of El Dorado cThe three volumes of the Second Edition therefore together contain _Fivehundred and seventeen_ separate narratives When to this we add thosenarratives included in the First Edition but omitted in the Second allthe voyages printed by Hakluyt or at his suggestion such as DiversVoyages touching the Discoverie of America The Conquest of TerraFlorida The Historie of the West Indies c c and many of thepublications of the Hakluyt Society some idea may be formed of themagnitude of the undertaking I trust the notes and illustrations I haveappended may prove useful to students and ordinary readers I can assureany who may be disposed to cavil at their brevity that many a _line_ hascost me hours of research In conclusion a short account of the previouseditions of Hakluyts Voyages may be found usefulThe _First_ Edition London G Bishop and R Newberie 1589 was in onevolume folio It contains besides the Dedication to Sir Francis Walsinghamsee page 3 a preface see page 9 tables and index 825 pages ofmatter The map referred to in the preface was one which Hakluytsubstituted for the one engraved by Molyneux which was not ready in timeand which was used for the Second EditionThe _Second_ Edition London G Bishop R Newberie and R Barker 15981599 1600 folio 3 vols in 2 is the basis of our present edition Thecelebrated voyage to Cadiz pages 60719 of first volume is wanting inmany copies It was suppressed by order of Elizabeth on the disgrace ofthe Earl of Essex The first volume sometimes bears the date of 1598Prefixed is an Epistle Dedicatorie a preface complimentary verses ctwelve leaves It contains 619 pages Volume II has eight leaves ofprefatory matter 312 pages for _Part I_ and 204 pages for _Part II_ ForVolume III there are also eight leaves for title dedication c and 868pagesThe _Third_ Edition London printed by G Woodfall 180912 royal 410