The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation. [vols. 1-3] made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600. yeres: deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. The first volume containeth the worthy discoueries, &c. of the English ... The second volume comprehendeth the principall nauigations ... to the south and south-east parts of the world ... By Richard Hakluyt preacher, and sometime student of Christ-Church in Oxford.

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Title: The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation. [vols. 1-3] made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600. yeres: deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. The first volume containeth the worthy discoueries, &c. of the English ... The second volume comprehendeth the principall nauigations ... to the south and south-east parts of the world ... By Richard Hakluyt preacher, and sometime student of Christ-Church in Oxford.
Publication: Imprinted at London :: By George Bishop, Ralph Newberie, and Robert Barker,; Anno 1599[-1600]
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The course from Hauana to Spaine.

IF you will saile from Hauana to Spaine, you must stirre away Northeast, till you come to the head of The Martires called La Cabeça de los Martires.* 1.1 If it chance before you come to the said head, that the winde should chop vp at North on you, then stand to the Eastward, vntill you bring your selfe as farre ahead as Matanças; then cast about to the West, to discouer the lande of The Martires,* 1.2 or of Florida, that the current may not set you on The Mimbres:* 1.3 and if by chance you see The Pan de Matanças at ful sea, it hath these markes following. It is a round heape or loafe, and high withall, and on the Westerne side thereof, appeareth a rocke like to the head of a Tor∣toise: and betweene this Pan and the hilles of Seluco, there will appeare vnto you a great broken lande, like as it were sunken places, and vpon the East side of this Pan toward Punta de los Puer∣cos it is all lowe lande,* 1.4 and you shall see no high lande as all: and being so farre shot, that this Pan de Matanças shall beare Westnorthwest and Southsoutheast off you, and being desirous also to auoyde the furie of the current of the chanell of Bahama,* 1.5 stir away Northnortheast, and by this course you shall passe the chanell, and win the coast of Florida.

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* 1.1

Cabeza de los Martires.

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* 1.2

Which Martires are a number of small I∣lands lying ahead the Cape of Florida.

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* 1.3

Los Mimbres. The markes of Pan de Ma∣tanzas.

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* 1.4

Punta de los Puercos.

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* 1.5

The furious current in the chanell of Ba∣hama.

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