RICHARD HAKLUYT 



And whereas in the course of this history often 

 mention is made of many beastes, birds, fishes, serpents, 

 plants, fruits, hearbes, rootes, apparell, armour, boates, 

 and such other rare and strange curiosities, which wise 

 men take great pleasure to reade of, but much more 

 contentment to see : herein 1 my selfe to my singuler 

 delight have bene as it were ravished in beholding 

 all the premisses gathered together with no small cost, 

 and preserved with no litle diligence, in the excellent 

 Cabinets of my very worshipfull and learned friends 

 M. Richard Garthe, one of the Clearkes of the pettie 

 Bags, and M. William Cope Gentleman Ussier to the 

 right Honourable and most prudent Counseller (the 

 Seneca of our common wealth,) the Lord Burleigh, high 

 Treasourer of England. 



Nowe, because peradventure it would bee expected 

 as necessarie, that the descriptions of so many parts of 

 the world would farre more easily be conceived of the 

 Readers, by adding Geographicall, and Hydrographicail 

 tables thereunto, thou art by the way to be admonished 

 that I have contented my selfe with inserting into the 

 worke one of the best generall mappes of the world 

 onely, untill the comming out of a very large and most 

 The excellent exact terrestriall Globe, collected and reformed according 

 nezve^ Globe of to the newest, secretest, and latest discoveries, both 

 Spanish, Portugall, and English, composed by M. 

 Emmerie MoUineux of Lambeth, a rare Gentleman in 

 his profession, being therein for divers yeeres, greatly 

 supported by the purse and liberalitie of the worshipfull 

 marchant M. William Sanderson. 



This being the summe of those things which I thought 



good to admonish thee of (good Reader) it remaineth that 



thou take the profite and pleasure of the worke : which 



I wish to bee as great to thee, as my paines and labour 



have bene in bringing these rawe fruits unto 



this ripenesse, and in reducing these 



loose papers into this order. 



Farewell. 



M. Mulli- 

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