| titel | The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English nation, made by Sea or over Land, to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres: Devided into three severall parts, according to the regions wherunto they were directed.The first, conteining the personall travels of the English unto Iudaea, Syria, Arabia, the river Euphrates, Babylon, Balsara, The Persian Gulfe, Ormuz, Chaul, Goa, India, and many Islands adioyning to the South parts of Asia: together with the like unto Egypt, the chiefest ports and places of Africa with in and without the Streight of Gibraltar, and about the famous Promontorie of Buona Esperanza. The second, comprehending the discoveries of the English towards the North and Northeast by Sea, as of Lapland, Scrikfinia, Corelia, the Baie of S.Nicholas, the Isles of Colgoieve, Vaigats, and Nova Zembla toward the great river Ob, with the mightie Empire of Russia, the Caspian Sea, Georgia, Armenia, Media, Persia, Boghar in Bactria, and divers kingsdoms of Tartaria.The third and last, including the English valiant attempts in searching almost all the corners of the vaste and new world of America, from 73.degrees of Northerly latitude Southward, to Meta Incognita, Newfoundland, the maine of Virginia, the point of Florida, the Baie of Mexico, all the Inland of Nova Hispania, the coast of Terra firma, Brasill, the river of Plate, to the Streight of Magellan: and through it, and from it in the South Sea to Chili, Peru, Xalisco, the Gulfe of California, Nova Albion upon the backside of Canada, further then ever any Christian hitherto hath pierced. Whereunto is added the last most renowned English Navigation, round about the whole Globe of the Earth.
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