Sir Francis Alvarez' Voyage to the Court of Prester John. 

 Description of the Golden Kingdom of Guinea, from the Dutch. 

 Robert Withers' Account of Algiers. 

 Friar Joannos dos Sanctos' Ethiopia Orientalis. 



West Indies : 



Antonio de Herreras' Description of the West Indies. 

 Joseph Acosta's Natural History of the West Indies. 

 Oviedo's History of the Indies. 

 Las Casas' Destruction of the Indies by the Spanish. 



North America : 



Samuel Champlain's Voyage to Canada. 



De Mont's Voyage into New France. 



Plantation of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. 



Captain John Smith's Description of Virginia. 



Proceedings of the English Colony in Virginia from 1600- 1 620. 



Sir Thomas Gates and Sir Thomas Dale's Occurrents in the Bermudas 

 and Virginia. 



English Voyages to the Summer Islands (Bermudas). 



Joseph Acosta's Mexican Antiquities. 



Ferdinand de Soto's Conquest of Florida. 



South America : 



Treatise of Brazil written by a Portugall. 



John Lerius' History of Brazil. 



The Inca Garcilasso de la Vega's Observations of Peru. 



Pedro Sancho's Relations and Occurrents in the Conquest of Peru 



by Pizarro. 

 Sir Richard Hawkins' Observations of a Voyage to the South Seas. 



Circum-Navigations : 



The first six Circum-Navigations of the World by Magellan, Drake, 

 Candish, Oliver Noort, Spilbergen, and Schouten. 



The book was published in 1625 and has never been 

 reprinted, so that copies of the original edition have now 

 become extremely scarce and costly. The aim of the 

 publishers in issuing this edition is to provide an accurate, 

 complete, and beautifully printed text, from the original 

 edition of 1625. The reprint will contain all the original 

 maps (over 70 in number), and curious illustrations ; the 



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