Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

Collected by

Richard Hakluyt

Preacher, and sometime Student of Christ-Church in Oxford

and Edited by
Edmund Goldsmid, F.R.H.S.

VOLUME VI

Nauigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoueries of the English Nation,

made to

The Ilands of Madera and of the Canaries

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Table of Contents

Title Page to volume 2 of the original edition.

Dedication to the first edition.

  1. The voyage of Macham an English man, wherein he first of any man discouered the Iland of Madera, recorded verbatim in the Portugall history, written by Antonio Galuano.
  2. A briefe note concerning an ancient trade of the English Marchants to the Canarie-ilands, gathered out of an olde ligier booke of M. Nicolas Thorne the elder a worshipfull marchant of the city of Bristoll.
  3. A description of the fortunate Ilands, otherwise called the Ilands of Canaria, with their strange fruits and commodities: composed by Thomas Nicols English man, who remained there the space of seuen yeeres together.
  4. The Fardle of Facions, containing the aunciente maners, customes, and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the Earth, called Affricke and Asie.
  5. The Conquest of the Grand Canaries.
  6. The Worldes Hydrographical Discription.

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