RICHARD HAKLUYT 



more antiquitie by many hundred yeeres, then those that 

 have bene made to the westerne coastes of America. 

 Under this title thou shalt first finde the old northerne 

 Navigations of our Brittish Kings, as of Arthur, of Malgo, 

 of Edgar Pacificus the Saxon Monarch, with that also of 

 Nicholaus de Linna under the north pole : next to them 

 in consequence, the discoveries of the bay of Saint 

 Nicholas, of Colgoieve, of Pechora, of the Isles of Vaigats, 

 of Nova Zembla, and of the Sea eastwards towardes the 

 river of Ob : after this, the opening by sea of the great 

 Dukedome, and Empire of Russia, with the notable and 

 strange journey of Master Jenkinson to Boghar in Bactria. 

 Whereunto thou maist adde sixe of our voyages eleven 

 hundred verstes up against the streame of Dwina to the 

 towne of Vologhda : thence one hundred, and fourescore 

 verstes by land to Yeraslave standing upon the mighty 

 river of Volga : there hence above two thousand and five 

 hundred versts downe the streame to the ancient marte 

 Towne of Astracan, and so to the manifolde mouthes of 

 Volga, and from thence also by ship over the Caspian sea 

 into Media, and further then that also with Camels unto 

 Georgia, Armenia, Hyrcania, Gillan, and the cheefest 

 Cities of the Empire of Persia : wherein the Companie of 

 Moscovie Marchants to the perpetuall honor of their 

 Citie, and societie, have performed more then any one, 

 yea then all the nations of Europe besides : which thing 

 is also acknowledged by the most learned Cosmographers, 

 and Historiographers of Christendome, with whose honor- 

 able testimonies of the action, not many for number, but 

 sufficient for authoritie I have concluded this second part. 

 Touching the westerne Navigations, and travailes of 

 ours, they succeede naturallie in the third and last roome, 

 forasmuch as in order and course those coastes, and 

 quarters came last of all to our knowledge and experience. 

 Herein thou shalt reade the attempt by Sea of the sonne 

 of one of the Princes of Northwales, in sayling and 

 searching towards the west more then 400. yeeres since : 

 the offer made by Christopher Columbus that renowned 



