TO THE FAVOURABLE READER 



neither of remote length and spaciousnesse, neither 

 of search and discoverie of strange coasts, the chiefe 

 subject of this my labour. 



Thus much in brevitie shall serve thee for the generall 

 order. Particularlie I have disposed and digested the 

 whole worke into 3. partes, or as it were Classes, not 

 without my reasons. In the first I have martialled all 

 our voyages of any moment that have bene performed 

 to the South and Southeast parts of the world, by which I 

 chiefly meane that part of Asia which is neerest, and of 

 the rest hithermost towards us : For I find that the oldest 

 travels as well of the ancient Britains, as of the English, 

 were ordinarie to Judea which is in Asia, termed by them 

 the Holy land, principally for devotions sake according to 

 the time, although I read in Joseph Bengorion a very 

 authenticall Hebrew author, a testimonie of the passing of 

 20000. Britains valiant souldiours, to the siege and feare- 

 full sacking of Jerusalem under the conduct of Vespasian 

 and Titus the Romane Emperour, a thing in deed of all 

 the rest most ancient. But of latter dayes I see our men 

 have pierced further into the East, have passed downe the 

 mightie river Euphrates, have sayled from Balsara through 

 the Persian gulfe to the Citie of Ormuz, and from thence 

 to Chaul and Goa in the East India, which passages 

 written by the parties themselves are herein to be read. 

 To these I have added the Navigations of the English 

 made for the parts of Africa, and either within or without 

 the streights of Gibraltar : within, to Constantinople in 

 Romania, to Alexandria, and Cayro in Egypt, to Tunez, 

 to Goletta, to Malta, to Algier, and to Tripolis in Bar- 

 bary: without, to Santa Cruz, to Asafi, to the Citie of 

 Marocco, to the River of Senega, to the Isles of Cape 

 Verde, to Guinea, to Benyn, and round about the dread- 

 full Cape of Bona Speranza, as far as Goa. 



The north, and Northeasterne voyages of our nation I 

 have produced in the second place, because our accesse to 

 those quarters of the world is later and not so auncient as 

 the former : and yet some of our travailes that way be of 



