PUBLISHERS' NOTE 



The first edition of ' The Principall Navigations, 

 Voiages and Discoveries of the English nation, made 

 by Sea or ouer Land, to the most remote and farthest 

 distant Quarters of the earth at any time within the 

 compasse of these 1 500. yeeres. ... By Richard Hakluyt 

 Master of Artes, and Student sometime of Christ- 

 Church in Oxford ' was ' imprinted at London by 

 George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, Deputies to 

 Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes most 

 excellent Maiestie ' in the year 1589, in one 

 volume foolscap folio. Some copies of this first edition 

 contain a cancel of pp. 491-501, substituting for 'The 

 Ambassage of Sir Hierome Bowes to the Emperour of 

 Moscouie 1583' a different account entitled 'A briefe 

 discourse of the voyage of Sir lerome Bowes knight, her 

 Maiesties ambassador to the Emperour of Muscouia, in 

 the yeere 1582 : and printed this second time, according 

 to the true copie I receiued of a gentleman that went 

 in the same voyage, for the correction of the errours 

 in the former impression.' It was, of course, this 

 amended account which appeared in the second edition, 

 but for the purposes of comparison the original account 

 will be printed as an appendix in the third volume. 



