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' New Buckingham in Norfolke was John Eldred's 

 first being. In Babilon hee spent some parte of 

 his time, and the rest of his earthly pilgrimage hee 

 spent in London, and was Alderman of that Famous 

 Citric' He traded to the East, and was a member 

 of the Levant Company. 



The Emperor Akbar, . . . . . .16 



Akbar (or i the great ') Mogul Emperor of India, is the 

 1 Selabdim Echebar King of Cambaia,' frequently 

 mentioned by Hakluyt. He came to the throne 

 in 1556, when between thirteen and fourteen years 

 old, and reigned until 1605. In addition to being 

 a great conqueror, he was a wise and enlightened 

 ruler. The present picture represents him as he 

 appeared towards the middle of his reign, when at 

 the height of his power, and after he had founded 

 his new religion. It is reproduced from an original 

 in an album of miniatures and calligraphic speci- 

 mens of the seventeenth and early eighteenth 

 centuries, preserved in the Department of Oriental 

 MSS. in the British Museum. 



PlanofOrmuz, ....... 32 



From the copy in the British Museum of G. Braun and 

 F. Hohenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum, 1573. 



English Sailing Chart, 1592, . . . .128 



This chart, drawn by T. Hood, and engraved by Ryther 

 in 1 592, is reproduced from the original in a 

 volume of miscellaneous papers entitled Sea Tracts, 

 Vol. II., in the Pepys Library, Magdalene College, 

 Cambridge, by permission of the College authorities. 

 It gives the coast lines from the latitude of the 

 Orkneys to the Cape Verde Islands. Thomas 

 Hood, * Doctor in Phisicke,' was also a lecturer on 

 navigation, a seller of compasses, and author and 

 editor of various books on mathematics and naviga- 

 tion. Specimens of his charts are very rare. 



