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Map of Florida by James Le Moyne, a.d. 1564, . 112 



*The skillful painter' James Le Moyne de Mourgues, 

 ' sometime living in the Black-fryers in London ' 

 accompanied the second expedition under Laudon- 

 ni^re in 1564 for the relief of the French colonists 

 in Florida. He was sent out by ' Monsieur 

 Chastillion, then Admiral of France/ and his 

 sketches * lively drawn in colours ' were engraved 

 and published in De Bry's Collections of Travels 

 and Voyages, Grands {America) Voyages, Part IL, 

 Frankfort 1591. The Map here reproduced is 

 taken from the copy in the British Museum of 

 De Bry's Collections. 



Map of the Coasts of China . . . . .336 



This map, which shows the *trew description of all the 

 coasts of China, Cauchinchina, Camboya, Syao, 

 Malacca, Arraacan, Pegu, together with all the 

 Islands thereabowts, both great and smale, with 

 the cliffes, breaches, sands, droughts and shallowes, 

 all perfectly drawn and examined with the most 

 expert cardes of the Portingales Pilots' was engraved 

 by Robert Beckit and printed in London by John 

 Wolfe in 1598. The reproduction is taken from 

 the copy in the British Museum of John Huighen 

 van Linschoten his Discours of Voyages unto ye Easte 

 and Weste Indies, London, 1598. 



Sir John Hawkins, ...... 400 



Sir John Hawkins or Hawkyns was born in Plymouth 

 in 1532. While a young man he made 'divers 

 voyages to the Isles of the Canaries' and learnt 

 * that Negros were very good merchandise in His- 

 paniola and that store of Negros might easily bee 

 had upon the coast of Guinea.' About 1559 he 

 married Katharine, daughter of Benjamin Gonson, 

 treasurer of the Navy. In October 1562 he 

 commanded an expedition to Guinea and got into 



