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shew himselfe a man of small experience in old and new 

 Histories, or wilfully lead with partialitie, or some worse 

 * I. Kifig. humour. * For who knoweth not, that king Salomon 

 ca/>. 5. Qf qI^^ entred into league upon necessitie with Hiram the 

 ^ . ^^"' king of Tyrus, a gentile ? Or who is ignorant that the 

 French, the Genouois, Florentines, Raguseans, Venetians, 

 and Polonians are at this day in league with the Grand 

 Signior, and have beene these many yeeres, and have used 

 trade and traffike in his dominions ? Who can deny that 

 the Emperor of Christendome hath had league with the 

 Turke, and payd him a long while a pension for a part of 

 Hungarie ? And who doth not acknowledge, that either 

 hath travailed the remote parts of the world, or read the 

 Histories of this later age, that the Spaniards and 

 Portugales in Barbaric, in the Indies, and elsewhere, have 

 ordinarie confederacie and traffike with the Moores, and 

 many kindes of Gentiles and Pagans, and that which is 

 more, doe pay them pensions, and use them in their 

 service and warres ? Why then should that be blamed in 

 us, which is usuall and common to the most part of other 

 Christian nations ? Therefore let our neighbours, which 

 have found most fault with this new league and traffike, 

 thanke themselves and their owne foolish pride, whereby 

 we were urged to seeke further to provide vent for our 

 naturall commodities. And herein the old Greeke pro- 

 verbe was most truely verified. That evill counsaile 

 proveth worst to the author and deviser of the same. 



Having thus farre intreated of the chiefe contents of 

 the first part of this second Volume, it remayneth that I 

 briefly acquaint your Honor with the chiefe contents of 

 the second part. It may therefore please you to under- 

 stand, that herein I have likewise preserved, disposed, and 

 set in order such Voyages, Navigations, Traffikes, and 

 Discoveries, as our Nation, and especially the worthy 

 inhabitants of this citie of London, have painefully 

 performed to the South and Southeast parts of the world, 

 without the Streight of Gibraltar, upon the coasts of 

 Africa, about the Cape of Buona Speran^a, to and 



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