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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- DIVERS voyages touching the discovery of America and the Islands adjacent
- THE NAMES OF CERTAINE LATE WRITERS OF GEOGRAPHIE, WITH THE YEERE WHEREIN THEY WROTE
- THE NAMES OF CERTAINE LATE TRAUAYLERS, BOTH BY SEA AND BY LANDE, WHICH ALSO FOR THE MOST PART HAUE WRITTEN OF THEIR OWNE TRAUAYLES AND VOYAGES
- A VERIE LATE AND GREAT PROBABILITY OF A PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-WEST PART OF AMERICA IN FIFTY-EIGHT DEGREES OF NORTHERLY LATITUDE
- TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL AND MOST VERTUOUS GENTLEMAN MASTER PHILLIP SYDNEY, ESQUIRE
- A LATINE COPIE OF THE LETTERS PATENTES OF KING HENRIE THE SEVENTH, GRAUNTED vnto Iohn Gabote and his three Sonnes
- A NOTE OF SEBASTIAN GABOTES VOYAGE OF Discouerie, taken out of an old Chronicle
- A DECLARATION OF THE INDIES AND LANDES discouered and subdued vnto the Emperour and the king of Portugale
- THE BOOKE MADE BY THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL Master Robert Thorne, in the yeere 1527 […]
- TO THE MOST CHRISTIAN KING OF FRAUNCE, FRAUNCES THE FIRST
- THE DISCOUERIE OF THE ILES OF FRISLAND, Iseland, Engroueland, Estotiland, Drogeo, and Icaria
- THE TRUE AND LAST DISCOUERIE OF FLORIDA
- NOTES IN WRITING BESIDES MORE PRIUIE BY Mouth that were giuen by a Gentleman, Anno 1580
- NOTES FRAMED BY A GENTLEMAN HERETOFORE to bee giuen to one that prepared for a discouerie, and went not
- THE NAMES OF CERTAINE COMMODITIES GROWing in part of America
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
THE TRUE AND LAST DISCOUERIE OF FLORIDA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- DIVERS voyages touching the discovery of America and the Islands adjacent
- THE NAMES OF CERTAINE LATE WRITERS OF GEOGRAPHIE, WITH THE YEERE WHEREIN THEY WROTE
- THE NAMES OF CERTAINE LATE TRAUAYLERS, BOTH BY SEA AND BY LANDE, WHICH ALSO FOR THE MOST PART HAUE WRITTEN OF THEIR OWNE TRAUAYLES AND VOYAGES
- A VERIE LATE AND GREAT PROBABILITY OF A PASSAGE BY THE NORTH-WEST PART OF AMERICA IN FIFTY-EIGHT DEGREES OF NORTHERLY LATITUDE
- TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL AND MOST VERTUOUS GENTLEMAN MASTER PHILLIP SYDNEY, ESQUIRE
- A LATINE COPIE OF THE LETTERS PATENTES OF KING HENRIE THE SEVENTH, GRAUNTED vnto Iohn Gabote and his three Sonnes
- A NOTE OF SEBASTIAN GABOTES VOYAGE OF Discouerie, taken out of an old Chronicle
- A DECLARATION OF THE INDIES AND LANDES discouered and subdued vnto the Emperour and the king of Portugale
- THE BOOKE MADE BY THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL Master Robert Thorne, in the yeere 1527 […]
- TO THE MOST CHRISTIAN KING OF FRAUNCE, FRAUNCES THE FIRST
- THE DISCOUERIE OF THE ILES OF FRISLAND, Iseland, Engroueland, Estotiland, Drogeo, and Icaria
- THE TRUE AND LAST DISCOUERIE OF FLORIDA
- NOTES IN WRITING BESIDES MORE PRIUIE BY Mouth that were giuen by a Gentleman, Anno 1580
- NOTES FRAMED BY A GENTLEMAN HERETOFORE to bee giuen to one that prepared for a discouerie, and went not
- THE NAMES OF CERTAINE COMMODITIES GROWing in part of America
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
Where as in the yeere of our Lorde God 1562, it pleased God to moue your honour to choose and appoint vs to discouer and view a certaine long coast of the West India, from the head of the lande called Laflorida, drawing towarde the North part, vnto the head of Britons, distant from the saide head of Laflorida 900 leagues or there about: to the ende wee might certifie you and make true report of the temperature, fertilitie, Portes, Hauens, Riuers, and generally of all the commodities that bee seene and found in that lande, and also to learne what people were there dwelling, which thing you haue long time agoe desired, beeing stirred therevnto by this zeale: That Fraunce might one day through newe discoueries haue knowledge of strange Countries, and also thereof to receiue (by meanes of continuall trafficke) riche and inestimable commodities, as other nations haue done, by taking in hand such farre nauigations, both to the honor and prowes of their kings and princes, and also to the encrease of great profite and vse to their common wealthes, countries, and dominions, which is most of all, wtout cōparisō, to be considered and esteemed. It seemeth well yt yee haue been stirred hereunto euen of God aboue, and led to it by the hope and desire you haue that a number of brutishe people and ignorant of Jesus Christe, may by his grace come to some knowledge of his holy Lawes and Ordinaunces. So therefore it seemeth that it hath pleased God by his godly prouidence to reserue the care which hee hath had of their saluation vntill this time, and will bring them to our faith at the time by himselfe alone foreseene and ordeined.
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- Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands AdjacentCollected and Published by Richard Hakluyt, pp. 90 - 114Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1850