The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, vol. 12

The Principal Navigations,
Voyages, Traffiques, and
Discoveries of The English
Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part
I.

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Title: The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries
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Part I.
Author: Richard Hakluyt
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the spelling and abbreviations of Hakluyt's 16th-century original. In
this version, the spelling has been retained, but the following
manuscript abbreviations 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
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THE PRINCIPAL
Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques
AND
Discoveries
OF
THE ENGLISH NATION.
Collected by
RICHARD HAKLUYT, PREACHER.
AND
Edited by
EDMUND GOLDSMID, F.R.H.S.
VOL. XII.
AMERICA.
PART I.

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR ROBERT CECIL[1] KNIGHT.
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
the English voyages offred vnto you the last yere, your perusing of the
same at your conuenient leasure, your good testimony of my selfe and
of my trauailes therein, together with the infallible signes of your
earnest desire to doe mee good, which very lately, when I thought least
thereof, brake forth into most bountiful and acceptable effects: these
considerations haue throughly animated and encouraged me to present
vnto your prudent censure this my third and last volume also. The
subiect and matter herein contained is the fourth part of the world,
which more commonly then properly is called America: but by the
chiefest Authors The new world. New, in regard of the new and late
discouery thereof made by Christopher Colon, aliàs Columbus, a
Genouois by nation, in the yere of grace 1492. And world, in respect of
the huge extension thereof, which to this day is not throughly
discouered, neither within the Inland nor in the coast, especially toward
the North and Northwest, although on the either side it be knowen vnto
vs for the space of fiue thousand leagues at the least, compting and
considering the trending of the land, and for 3000. more on the
backeside in the South Sea from the Streight of Magellan to Cape
Mendoçino and Noua Albion. So that it seemeth very fitly to be called
A newe worlde. Howbeit it cannot be denied but that Antiquitie had
some kinde of dimme glimse, and vnperfect notice thereof. Which may
appeare by the relation of Plato in his two worthy dialogues of Timæus
and Critias vnder the discourse of that mighty large yland called by him
Atlantis, lying in the Ocean sea without the Streight of Hercules, now
called the Straight of Gibraltar, being (as he there reporteth) bigger then
Africa and Asia: And by that of Aristotle in his booke De admirandis
auditionibus of the long nauigation of certaine Carthaginians, who
sayling forth of the aforesaid Streight of Gibraltar into the maine Ocean
for the space of many dayes, in the ende found a mighty and fruitfull
yland, which they would haue inhabited, but were forbidden by their
Senate and chiefe gouernours. Moreouer, aboue 300. yeeres after these
wee haue the testimony of Diodorus Siculus lib. 5 cap. 7. of the like

mighty yland discouered in the Westerne Ocean by the Tyrrheni, who
were forbidden for certaine causes to inhabite the same by the foresaid
Carthaginians. And Senecca in his tragedie intituled Medea foretold
aboue 1500. yeeres past, that in the later ages the Ocean would discouer
new