THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Placentia, near Burburata, Sir John 

 Hawkins at (1568) ix. 448. 



Placentia Bay, near Cape Race, viii. 

 63; Sir Humphrey Gilbert's fleet 

 at (1583) 92 ; in Newfoundland, 

 163; the Grace at (1594) 165; 

 Charles Leigh at (1597) 166. 



Plaen, Henry, Earl of, twenty- 

 fourth master of the Dutch 

 knights (1410) II. 8. 



Plague, in Novgorod (1566) iii. 80; 

 in Russia (1572) 171, 174; and 

 small pox in Potosi and De la Paz 

 (1590) X. 171. 



Plaias, Cape de las, discovered by 

 Captain Ulloa (1539) ix. 212. 



Plancius, Peter, map of the world 

 by, engraving of, ix. 474. 



Piano Carpini, John de, i. Iii., 11. 

 187; his voyage in Tartary, i. 55- 

 179 ; ambassador to the Khan 

 (1246) 94, 134, 158; received by 

 Bathy, 163 f. ; food during Lent 

 in Tartary, 165 ; Kaiuk and, 168 ; 

 received by Kaiuk, 173 ; suffer- 

 ings of, 176; leaves Tartary, 

 177 f. ; returns to Rome, 178 f. ; 

 and Wasilico, 179; at Bathy's 

 court, 273; writings, iii. 281; 

 travels of, xii. 12. 



Planta, first fruit of the sugar cane, 

 VI. 128. 



Planta Solis, found in Virginia 

 (1586) VIII. 361. 



Plantain, in Canary Islands, vi, 

 128; description of, by Job Har- 

 top (1568) IX. 447. 



Plantan, see Plantain. 



Planting, Western, report of, by Sir 

 George Peckham (1583) viii. 89- 

 131; two ways of colonizing, 98, 

 100; two societies for the, 113; 

 hunting in, 114; usefulness of 

 rivers in, 117; ' Discourse on the,' 

 bv Richard Hakluyt (1584) xii. 32, 

 82. 



Plat, Captain Anthony, land cap- 

 tain in Sir Francis Drake's fleet 

 (1585) X. 98; death of (1596) 239. 



Plata, Cabos del, marks of, described 

 in the Ruttier, x. 281. 



Plata, El Puerto de, harbour, men- 

 tioned in second Ruttier, x. 328. 



Plate, River, discovered by Cabot 



(1526) II. 166; the Edward Cot- 

 ton's trade on the (1583) vi. 409; 

 products of, 410; Sebastian 

 Cabot's account of the (1497) vii. 

 149; Lopez Vaz at (1586) x. 75; 

 trade between Rio de Janeiro 

 and (1596) XI. 39; Ruttier for, 73, 

 86; Sebastian Cabot's discovery 

 of (1526) 91 ; Captain John Drake 

 in (1583) 94; Sir Francis Drake in 

 (1578) 107; Nuno da Silva, Sir 

 Francis Drake's pilot to (1578) 

 134 ; latitude of the mouth of, 153 ; 

 Edward Fenton bound for (1582) 

 188; S. F^ on (1587) 208; towns 

 on, 208, 210; description of, 252; 

 latitude of, 354; John Chidley at 

 (1590) 383; English ships on the, 

 XII. 102. 



Plato, on West Indies, i. xii. ; on 

 Atlantis, vii. 160 ; * Commentaries 

 on,' by Philo the Jew, 161, 189; 

 on the Atlantic, 162 ; on the Ocean 

 Sea, 199; America known to, as 

 Atlantis, xii. 26. 



Playa or Praya, landing of Christo- 

 pher Carleill with soldiers at (1585) 

 X. 103 ; burnt by Sir Francis 

 Drake (1585) 108. 



Pleasure, the, ship from S. Malo 

 captured by (1591) viii. 155. 



Plesance, in Newfoundland, viii. 14. 



Plesco, in Russia, 11. 188, 194, in. 

 370 ; hide markets in, 11. 225 ; 

 honey and wax market at, 262 ; 

 flax market at, 296 ; or Plescove, 

 English trade in, iii. 95, 109; Eng- 

 lish money coined in, 116; Rus- 

 sian wares on the market, 207; 

 English trade free in (1586) 349. 



Plesko, province of Russia, in. 358. 



Plettebergius, grand master of the 

 Dutch knights, and Ivan Vasili- 

 wich, II. 189. 



Plimmouth, see Plymouth. 



Plimouth, see Plymouth. 



Plinie, see Pliny. 



Plinius, see Pliny. 



Pliny, I. xix., vii. 137; account of 

 Hanno's sailing round Africa, i. 

 xli. ; on earthquakes, iv. 17, 107; 

 second book of his ' Natural His- 

 tory,' 21, 112; on lire and water, 

 22, 26,113, 118; on fountains, 36, 



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