WILLIAM HAWKINS 



A.D. 



153032. 



CERTAINE VOYAGES 



Navigations and traffiques both ancient and of 

 late, to divers places upon the coast of Brasil: 

 together w^ith a Ruttier for all that coast, and 

 two intercepted letters which reveale many 

 secrets of the state of that countery: the 

 rest of our voyages to Brasil which have 

 bene either intended or performed to 

 the River of Plate, the Streight of 

 Magellan, the South Sea, or far- 

 ther that way, being reserved 

 for the generall heades next 

 insuing. 



A brief relation of two sundry voyages made by 

 the worshipful M. William Haukins of Plim- 

 mouth, father to Sir John Haukins knight, late 

 Treasurer of her Majesties Navie, in the 

 yeere 1530 and 1532. 



Lde M. William Haukins of Plimmouth, 

 a man for his wisedome, valure, experi- 

 ence, and skill in sea causes much es- 

 teemed, and beloved of K. Henry the 

 8, and being one of the principall Sea- 

 captaines in the West parts of England 

 in his time, not contented with the 



short voyages commonly then made onely to the 

 knowne coasts of Europe, armed out a tall and goodly 

 shippe of his owne of the burthen of 250 tunnes, 

 called the Paule of Plimmouth, wherwith he made three 

 long and famous voyages unto the coast of Brasil, a 

 thing in those dayes very rare, especially to our Nation. 

 In the course of which voyages he touched at the river 

 of Sestos upon the coast of Guinea, where hee traffiqued 



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