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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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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Imprinted at London :: By George Bishop, Ralph Newberie, and Robert Barker,
Anno 1599[-1600]
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Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800.
Discoveries (in geography), English -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A02495.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 23, 2025.

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The letters, discourses, instructions, obseruations, and ruttiers, depending vpon the voyages to Brasil.
A Letter written to M. Richard Staper by Iohn Whithal from Santos in Brasil, the 26. of Iune, 1578.
pag. 701
A letter of the aduenturers for Brasil sent to Iohn Whithal dwelling at Santos, by the Minion of London, dated the 24. of October 1580.
pag. 703
An intercepted letter of Francis Suarez to his brother Diego Suarez dwelling in Lisbon, writ∣ten from the riuer of Ienero in Brasil in Iune 1596. concerning an exceeding rich trade newly be∣gunne betweene that place and Peru by the way of the riuer of Plate, with small barkes of 30. or 40. tunnes.
pag. 706
An intercepted letter written from Feliciano Cieça de Carualho the gouernour of Paraiua in the most Northren part of Brasil 1597. to Philip the second King of Spaine, concerning the con∣quest of Rio grande, &c.
pag. 716
A speciall note concerning the currents of the sea betweene the Cape of Buena Esperança, and the coast of Brasilia.
pag. 719
An excellent ruttier describing the course to be kept from Cabo verde to the coast of Brasil, and all along the said coast from Fernambuck to the riuer of Plate.
pag. 719
A ruttier from the riuer of Plate to the Streights of Magellan.
pag. 724.
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