collection of voyages in manuscript. These came into 

 the hands of Purchas, who added to them many more 

 voyages and travels of Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese 

 explorers, as well as of English travellers. He also incor- 

 porated many translations from early books of travel 

 which were becoming scarce even in his day. 



It is impossible within the limits of this Prospectus to 

 give the complete Contents of Purchas's great collection, 

 but the following list will serve to indicate the extent 

 covered by the Voyages and Histories, while the specimen 

 pages annexed give an idea of the diversity of subjects 

 treated of. 



Northern Europe and Arctic Voyages : 



Voyages and Expeditions of the Moscovy Company. Sir Thomas 



Smith's Embassy to Russia. 

 The Voyages of Captain Thomas Edge, William Barents, Jonas 



Poole, Henry Hudson, William Baffin, James Hall. 



East Indies, China and Japan : 



Voyages and Expeditions of the East India Company from its 



beginning in 1600. 

 William Adams' Voyages to Japan. 

 Captain John Saris' Voyages to Japan. 

 Richard Cock's Adventures in Japan. 

 Edmund Scott's History of Java. 

 Sir Thomas Roe's Embassy to the Great Mogul. 

 George Sandys' Travels in the East. 

 Sir Anthony Sherley's Travels in Persia. 

 Travels of Louis Barthema or Vertoman in the East. 

 Francois Pyrard de Laval's Observations of the Maldive Islands. 

 Gaspar de Cruz, A Treatise of China. 



Fernan Mendez Pinto, Observations of China, Tartary, etc. 

 Acts and Observations of the Jesuits in China. 



Africa : 



John Leo's (Africanus), Observations of Africa. 



History of Barbary. 



George Sandys' Relations of Africa. 



Richard Jobson's Travels in Guinea. 



Philippo Pigafetta's Report of the Kingdom of Congo. 



