TO SIR ROBERT CECIL 



beyonde the East India. To come more neere unto 

 particulars, I have here set downe the very originals and 

 infancie of our trades to the Canarian Hands, to the 

 kingdomes of Barbaric, to the mightie rivers of Senega 

 and Gambra, to those of Madrabumba, and Sierra Leona, 

 and the Isles of Cape Verde, with twelve sundry voyages 

 to the sultry kingdomes of Guinea and Benin, to the Isle 

 of San Thome, with a late and true report of the weake 

 estate of the Portugales in Angola, as also the whole 

 course of the Portugale Caracks from Lisbon to the barre 

 of Goa in India, with the disposition and qualitie of the 

 climate neere and under the Equinoctiall line, the sundry 

 infallible markes and tokens of approching unto, and 

 doubling of The Cape of good Hope, the great variation 

 of the compasse for three or foure pointes towards the 

 East betweene the Meridian of S. Michael one of the 

 Islands of the Azores, and the aforesaid Cape, with 

 the returne of the needle againe due North at the Cape 

 Das Agulias, and that place being passed outward bound, 

 the swarving backe againe thereof towards the West, 

 proportionally as it did before, the two wayes, the one 

 within and the other without the Isle of S. Laurence, the 

 dangers of privie rockes and quicksands, the running seas, 

 and the perils thereof, with the certaine and undoubted 

 signes of land. All these and other particularities are 

 plainly and truely here delivered by. one Thomas Stevens 

 a learned Englishman, who in the yeere 1579 going as a 

 passenger in the Portugale Rleete from Lisbon into India, 

 wrote the same from Goa to his father in England : 

 Whereunto I have added the memorable voyage of M. 

 James Lancaster, who doth not onely recount and confirme 

 most of the things above mentioned, but also doth 

 acquaint us with the state of the voyage beyond Cape 

 Comori, and the Isle of Ceilon, with the Isles of Nicubar 

 and Gomes Polo lying within two leagues of the rich 

 Island Samatra, and those of Pulo Pinaon, with the 

 maine land of Jun9alaon and the streight of Malacca. 

 I have likewise added a late intercepted letter of a 



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