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partes of the world, and to carry and conuay such 

 wares and marchendizes whereof they haue great 

 store and aboundance vnto the same places, which 

 As the art of t»y rcason of the art of nauigation and 

 nauigation t^g commodities of the sea, is easily 



more increas- ' ■' 



eth, so there to be effected and brought to passe. 



are daily more ,,t, • , . • , , 



new countries vVhicn nauigation as It dayly more 

 found out. jjj^j j^Qj.g increaseth (to the great 



woonder and admiration of those, that com- 

 pare the sea-faring and navigation vsed in our 

 forefathers' times, yea, and that also that hath 

 beene practised in our age, with that which now 

 Diligence and ^^ '^'^ present is daily furthered and 

 effect"^rt" sought out), SO there are continually 

 which is new voiages made, and strange coasts 



*°"^ ' ■ discouered ; the which although they 



be not done by the first, secod, or third voiage, but 

 after, by tract of time, first brought to their full 

 effect, and desired commoditie, and the fruits 

 thereby, by continuance of time reaped. Yet we 

 ,,, . . must not be abasht, nor dismayed, at 



We must not ' / » * 



leaueofb^ the labour, toile, trauaile, and dagers 



some men » . 1 • 1 • 



dislike or dis- sustayned in such uoiages, to that end 

 pr^e'edln*^"! made, although as I said I^efore the 

 benefit thereof be not had nor scene 

 in the first, second, tiiird, or more uoiages ; for 

 what labour is more proiitablc, and worthier i)raise 

 and commendation, then that which tendeth vnto 

 the common good and benefit of all men. . . . 



IV, Barents. 



