RICHARD HAKLUYT 



the subject in his later dedications, pressing it on the 

 attention of the Lord High Admiral and of Sir Robert 

 Cecil. His was a voice crying in the wilderness ; and to 

 this day the naval and military professions have no 

 dealings with University education. The man who 

 should bring these into touch, who should enlist 

 soldiers and sailors for the furtherance of knowledge, 

 and give to the Army and Navy and Merchant service 

 officers wide awake to the scientific opportunities of 

 their calling, would be a benefactor to his country and 

 a worthy disciple of Hakluyt. One at least of Hak- 

 luyt's ideas has had a very recent fulfilment. In his Tropical 

 dedication of the Third Volume of his Voyages (1600) 

 to Sir Robert Cecil he speaks of a short treatise, which 

 he had lying by him, touching The curing of hot diseases 

 incident to travellers in long and Southern voyages^ by one 

 George Watson. He intended to include it in his book, 

 but desisted, because it was very defective, and a certain 

 Doctor Gilbert promised that the whole College of 

 Physicians should confer, and produce something autho- 

 ritative on the diseases of hot and cold regions. So the 

 founders of recent Schools of Tropical Medicine are 

 also disciples of Hakluyt. 



Before the publication of his first book, Hakluyt 

 must have moved from Oxford to London, in what 

 capacity we do not know. Early in 1582 we find him 

 in correspondence with Sir Francis Walsingham, who 

 treats him as a recognised authority on Western discovery. 

 It is a strange thing that he, the recorder of the Voyages, 

 should have taken part in none of them. We hear of 

 two Expeditions which he thought of accompanying. 

 One was Drake's West Indies voyage of 1585. The 



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