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** Transcriber’s Notes **

The printed edition from which this e-text has been produced retains the spelling and abbreviations of Hakluyt’s 16th-century original.  In this version, the spelling has been retained, but the following manuscript abbreviations have been silently expanded: 

- vowels with macrons = vowel + ‘n’ or ‘m’ - q; = -que (in the Latin) - y’e = the; y’t = that; w’t = with

This edition contains footnotes and two types of sidenotes.  Most footnotes are added by the editor.  They follow modern (19th-century) spelling conventions.  Those that don’t are Hakluyt’s (and are not always systematically marked as such by the editor).  The sidenotes are Hakluyt’s own.  Summarizing sidenotes are labelled [Sidenote:  ] and placed before the sentence to which they apply.  Sidenotes that are keyed with a symbol are labeled [Marginal note:  ] and placed at the point of the symbol, except in poetry, where they are placed at a convenient point.  Additional notes on corrections, etc. are signed ‘KTH’

** End Transcriber’s Notes **

THE PRINCIPAL

Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques

AND

Discoveries

OF

The English nation.

Collected by

Richard hakluyt, preacher.

AND

Edited by

Edmund GOLDSMID, F.R.H.S.

Vol.  XII.

America.  Part I.

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR ROBERT CECIL[1] KNIGHT.

Principall Secretarie to her Maiestie, Master of the Court of Wards and
  Liueries, and one of her Maiesties most honourable Priuie Councell.

Right honourable, your fauourable acceptance of my second volume of the English voyages offred vnto you the last yere, your perusing of the same at your conuenient leasure, your good testimony of my selfe and of my trauailes therein, together with the infallible signes of your earnest desire to doe mee good, which very lately, when I thought least thereof, brake forth into most bountiful and acceptable effects:  these considerations haue throughly animated and encouraged me to present vnto your prudent censure this my third and last volume also.  The subiect and matter herein contained is the fourth part of the world, which more commonly then properly is called America:  but by the chiefest Authors The new world.  New, in regard of the new and late discouery thereof made by Christopher Colon, alias Columbus, a Genouois by nation, in the yere of grace 1492.  And world,