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PURCHAS'S VOYAGES Hakluytus Posthumus

or

Purchas His Pilgrimes

Contayning

Wherein

a History of the World, in Sea voyages & lande
Travells, by Englishmen and others.
Gods Wonders in Nature & Providence, The Actes,
Arts, Varieties, & Vanities of Men, with a world
of the World's Rarities, are by a world of Eywitnesse-
Authors, Related to the World. Some left written
by Mr. Hakluyt at his death, More since added, His
also perused, & perfected. All examined, abreviated,
Illustrated with Notes, Enlarged with Discourses,
Adorned with pictures, and Expressed in Mapps. In
fower Parts, Each containing five Bookes.

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By SAMUEL PURCHAS. B.D.

HIS great collection is a continuation and enlargement of Richard Hakluyt's Principall Naviga

tions, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. At Hakluyt's death he left unpublished a large collection of voyages in manuscript. These came into the hands of Purchas, who added to them many more voyages and travels of Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese explorers, as well as of English travellers. He also incorporated many translations from early books of travel which were becoming scarce even in his day. The book was published in 1625 and has never been reprinted, so that copies of the original edition have now become extremely scarce and costly.

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It is impossible within the limits of this Prospectus to give the complete contents of Purchas's great collection, but the following list will serve to indicate the extent covered by the Voyages and Histories.

Northern Europe and Arctic Voyages:

Voyages and Expeditions of the Moscovy Company. Sir Thomas Smith's Embassy to Russia. The Voyages of Captain Thomas Edge, William Barents, Jonas Poole, Henry Hudson, William Baffin. East Indies, China and Japan :

Voyages and Expeditions of the East India Company from its beginning in 1600. Voyages to Japan by Adams, Saris, and Cock. Edmund Scott's History of Java. Sir Thomas Roe's Embassy to the Great Mogul. Travels in the East by George Sandys and Sir Anthony Sherley. Travels of Louis Barthema or Vertoman in the East. Francois Pyrard de Laval's Observations of the Maldive Islands. Gaspar de Cruz and Pinto's Treatises of China. Africa:

John Leo's (Africanus) Observations of Africa. George Sandys' Relations of Africa. Richard Jobson's Travels in Guinea. Philippo Pigafetta's Report of the Kingdom of Congo. Sir Francis Alvarez' Voyage to the Court of Prester John. Robert Withers' Account of Algiers. Friar Joannos dos Sanctos' Ethiopia Orientalis.

West Indies :

Antonio de Herreras' Description of the West Indies. Joseph Acosta's Natural History of the West Indies. Oviedo's History of the Indies. Las Casas' Destruction of the Indies by the Spanish.

North America :

Samuel Champlain's Voyage to Canada. De Mont's Voyage into New France. Plantation of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Captain John Smith's Description of Virginia. Proceedings of the English Colony in Virginia from 1600-1620. Occurrents in the Bermudas and Virginia. English Voyages to the Summer Islands (Bermudas). Mexican Antiquities. Conquest of Florida. South America:

John Lerius' History of Brazil. The Inca Garcilasso de la Vega's Observations of Peru. Pedro Sancho's Occurrents in the Conquest of Peru by Pizarro. Sir Richard Hawkins' Voyage to the South Seas.

Circum-Navigations:

The First six Circum-Navigations of the World by Magellan, Drake, Candish, Oliver Noort, Spilbergen, and Schouten.

All the Original Maps and Illustrations have been reproduced in Facsimile in this Edition.

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THE ZEVERA OR ZEBRA

Notices of Purchas's Voyages

"These books are the records of the foundation of the modern world. THE REPUBLICATION OF PURCHAS'S PILGRIMS' IS A SERVICE OF THE FIRST ORDER TO STUDENTS, AND NO LIBRARY OF ANY IMPORTANCE CAN AFFORD TO MISS HIS VOLUMES FROM ITS SHELVES. So far as we have tested it, the reprint is accurate, and reproductions of the maps and sketches of the original are well done, and when the index volume appears and makes its contents readily available, readers will have before them a compendium of the geography of the world as it was known to our ancestors up to the end of the eighteenth century, when another era of discovery opened. Messrs. MacLehose are indeed to be congratulated on the successful issue of this noble addition to the history of the conquest of the earth by modern commerce. We say addition, for Purchas is so rare a volume, that the work comes to most of us as new."-ATHENEUM.

"PURCHAS'S WORK IS IMMORTAL, and its appearance in a form so accessible and so handsome is a matter for warmest congratulations." -NOTES AND QUERIES.

"The re-issue of Purchas His Pilgrimes' is in some ways a greater boon to scholars than the reprint of Hakluyt himself."-PROFESSOR WALTER RALEIGH in the Outlook.

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"The new volumes of 'Purchas' are full of interest and between the narratives of so many intrepid travellers it is not easy to choose. Perhaps the knowledge that these are books which can be dipped into at any time, always with the assurance that a new fact with an old face will disclose itself, is the best recommendation to the average reader, whilst scholars are already assured of the deeper value. . . We hope that the publishers are receiving the support they deserve for their well-planned and thoroughly executed enterprise."-THE

ACADEMY.

"Assuredly the library of the student of Imperial affairs IS INCOMPLETE WITHOUT 'HAKLUYTUS POSTHUMUS.'"-DAILY MAIL.

"There is always the delicious spice of adventure in these old recitals of voyages and travels, and the romancer need never be "gravelled' for lack of matter with Hakluyt' and 'Purchas' on his book-shelves.. . . Every fresh volume of Purchas' will be a fresh and fierce joy."-THE YORKSHIRE POST.