. The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques & discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compass of these 1600 yeeres . ings Iwas an eie-witnesse, it pleasing the Ambassadour totake mee in with him to the Grand Signior. If forlacke of time to put it in order I have not performedit so well as it ought, I crave pardon, assuring you thatto my knowledge I have not missed in the trueth of anything. If you aske mee what in my travels I havelearned, I answere as a noble man of France did to thelike d
. The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques & discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compass of these 1600 yeeres . ings Iwas an eie-witnesse, it pleasing the Ambassadour totake mee in with him to the Grand Signior. If forlacke of time to put it in order I have not performedit so well as it ought, I crave pardon, assuring you thatto my knowledge I have not missed in the trueth of anything. If you aske mee what in my travels I havelearned, I answere as a noble man of France did to thelike demaund, Hoc unum didici, mundi contemptum:and so concluding with the wise man in the booke ofthe Preacher, that all is vanitie, and one thing onely isnecessarie, I take my leave and commit you to theAlmightie. From London the 16. March 1597. Your loving Nephew Richard Wrag. [A description 93 i593« THE ENGLISH VOYAGES A description of a Voiage to Constantinople andSyria, begun the 21. of March 1593. andended the 9. of August, 1595. wherein isshewed the order of delivering the secondPresent by Master Edward Barton her ma-jesties Ambassador, which was sent from herMajestie to Sultan Murad Can, Emperour ofTurkic. E set saile in the Ascension of London,a new shippe very well appointed, oftwo hundred and three score tunnes(whereof was master one WilliamBroadbanke, a provident and skilfullman in his facultie) from Gravesendthe one and twentie of March upon the eight of Aprill folowing wee passed thestreights of Gibraltar, and with a small Westerne gale,the 24. of the same, we arrived at Zante an Handunder the Venetians. The fourth of May wee departed,and the one and twentie wee arrived at Alexandretta inCilicia in the very bottome of the Mediterrane sea, aroade some 25. miles distant from Antioch, where ourmarchants land their goods to bee sent for Aleppo.[II. 1. 304.] From thence wee set saile the fift of June, and bycontrary windes were driven upon the coast of Cara-m
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