THE EPISTLE DEDICATORIE IN THE 

 FIRST EDITION, 1589. 



To the Right Honorable Sir Francis Walsingham. 

 Knight, Principall Secretarie to her Majestic, 

 Chancellor of the Duchie of Lancaster, and 

 one of her Majesties most honourable Privie 

 Councell. 



IGHT Honorable, I do remember that 

 being a youth, and one of her Majesties 

 scholars at Westminster that fruitfull nur- 

 serie, it was my happe to visit the chamber 

 of M. Richard Hakluyt my cosin, a Gen- 

 tleman of the Middle Temple, well knowen 

 unto you, at a time when I found lying 

 open upon his boord certeine bookes of Cosmographie, 

 with an universall Mappe : he seeing me somewhat 

 curious in the view therof, began to instruct my ignorance, 

 by shewing me the division of the earth into three parts 

 after the olde account, and then according to the latter, 

 & better distribution, into more : he pointed with his 

 wand to all the knowen Seas, Gulfs, Bayes, Straights, 

 Capes, Rivers, Empires, Kingdomes, Dukedomes, and 

 Territories of ech part, with declaration also of their 

 speciall commodities, & particular wants, which by the 

 benefit of traffike, & entercourse of merchants, are plenti- 

 fully supplied. From the Mappe he brought me to the 

 Bible, and turning to the 107 Psalme, directed mee to the 

 23 & 24 verses, where I read, that they which go downe 

 to the sea in ships, and occupy by the great waters, they 

 see the works of the Lord, and his woonders in the deepe. 



