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.

Certeine voyages made for the discouery of the gulfe of California, and of the sea-coast on the Northwest or backside of America.

THe voyage of the right worshipfull knight Francisco de Vlloa, with 3 ships set forth at the charges of the right noble Fernando Cortez, by the coasts of Nueua Galicia, & Culiacan, into the gulfe of California, called El mar vermejo, as also on the backside of Cape California, as far as 30 degrees, begun frō Acapulco the 8 of Iuly, 1539.

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The voyage and discouery of Fernando Alarchon, made by the order of the R. H. Don An∣tonio de Mendoça viceroy of New Spaine, to the very bottome of the gulfe of California, and 85 leagues vp the riuer of Buena Guia, begun the 9 of May, 1540.

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The voyage and course which sir Francis Drake held from the hauen of Guatulco, on the backside of Nueua Espanna, to the Northwest of California, as far as 43 degrees, & from thence backe againe to 38 degrees, where in a very good harbour he graued his shippe, entrenched himselfe on land, called the countrey by the name of Noua Albion, and tooke possession there∣of on the behalfe of her Maiestie.

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The memorable voyage of Francis Gualle a Spanish captaine and pilot, vndertaken at the appointment of the viceroy of New Spaine, from the hauen of Acapulco in the sayd prouince, to the islands of the Luçones or the Philippinas, vnto the hauen of Manilla, and from thence to

the hauen of Macao in China; and from Macao by the Lequeos, the isles of Iapan, and other isles to the East of Iapan, and likewise by the Northwest part of America in 37 degrees and ½ b••cke againe to Acapulco, begun the 10 of March 1582, & ended 1584. Out of which voy∣age, besides g••eat probabilities of a North, Northwest, or Northeast passage, may euid••ntly be gathered, that the sea betweene Iapan and America is by m••ny hundred leagues broader, and the land betweene Cape Mendoçino and Cape California, is many hundred leagues narrower, then we ••inde them to be in the ordinary maps and relations.

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An extract of a Spanish letter written from Pueblo de los Angeles in Nueua Espanna in Octo∣ber 1597, touching the discouery of the rich islands of California, being distant eight dayes sailing from the maine.

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