A new voyage round the world, by a course never sailed before: Being a voyage undertaken by some merchants, who afterwards proposed the setting up an East-India Company in FlandersIllustrated with copper plates . A^J^. ANEW VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD |T has for fome Ages been thought fo wonderful a thing to fail theTour or Circle of the Globe^that when a Man has done thismighty Feat,ne prefently thinksit deferves to be recorded likeSir Francis Drakes* So as fooaas Men have act€d theSailor,they comea-fhore andWrite Books of their Voyage, not only to make agreat Noife of what they have done themfelv
A new voyage round the world, by a course never sailed before: Being a voyage undertaken by some merchants, who afterwards proposed the setting up an East-India Company in FlandersIllustrated with copper plates . A^J^. ANEW VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD |T has for fome Ages been thought fo wonderful a thing to fail theTour or Circle of the Globe^that when a Man has done thismighty Feat,ne prefently thinksit deferves to be recorded likeSir Francis Drakes* So as fooaas Men have act€d theSailor,they comea-fhore andWrite Books of their Voyage, not only to make agreat Noife of what they have done themfelveSjbut pretending tofhow the way to others to comeafter them, they fet up for Teachers and ChartMakers to Pofterity. Tho moil of them have h:4this Misfortune, that whatever Succefs they havehad in the Voyage, they have had very little inthe Relation ^ except it be to tell us, that a Sea-man when he comes to the Prefs, is pretty muchout of his Element, and a very good Sailor may-make but a very indifferent Author.
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