The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation: Made by Sea Or Overland to the Remote & Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at Any Time Within the Compasse of These 1600 Years, Volume 8 |
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Contents
THE PRINCIPALL NAVIGATIONS OF THE ENGLISH NATION | 1 |
The first voyage of M William Hawkins of Plimmouth father | 13 |
A letter of the adventurers for Brasil sent to John Whithal | 19 |
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| Title | The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation: Made by Sea Or Overland to the Remote & Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at Any Time Within the Compasse of These 1600 Years, Volume 8 Every: Travel The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation: Made by Sea Or Overland to the Remote & Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at Any Time Within the Compasse of These 1600 Years, Richard Hakluyt |
| Author | Richard Hakluyt |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | J.M. Dent, 1907 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 27 Mar 2006 |
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