Stories from Hakluyt, selected and edited by Richard Wilson . ? SELECTEDAND EDITED BV RICHARD WILSON D. LITT. sssss^^ WzT 7 XS«5i!t*»«^45toff*« J M DENT & SONS LTD ? LONDON & TORONTO Sole Agent for Scotland THE GRANT EDUCATIONAL CO. LTD. GLASGOW 3\J£ All rights reserved CONTENTS Introduction ...... Christopher Columbus .... Sebastian Cabot ..... Chancellors North-Easterly Voyage .The Second Voyage of Martin FrobisherDrakes Voyage ..... A Voyage Intended Towards ChinaGilberts Voyage to NewfoundlandThe First Voyage to VirginiaGrenville in Virginia .... Cavendishs Voyage to the South Seas Th
Stories from Hakluyt, selected and edited by Richard Wilson . ? SELECTEDAND EDITED BV RICHARD WILSON D. LITT. sssss^^ WzT 7 XS«5i!t*»«^45toff*« J M DENT & SONS LTD ? LONDON & TORONTO Sole Agent for Scotland THE GRANT EDUCATIONAL CO. LTD. GLASGOW 3\J£ All rights reserved CONTENTS Introduction ...... Christopher Columbus .... Sebastian Cabot ..... Chancellors North-Easterly Voyage .The Second Voyage of Martin FrobisherDrakes Voyage ..... A Voyage Intended Towards ChinaGilberts Voyage to NewfoundlandThe First Voyage to VirginiaGrenville in Virginia .... Cavendishs Voyage to the South Seas The Fight of the Revenge The Last Voyage of Drake and Hawkins Richard Hakluyt and his Work . PAGE 7 9 14 22 365893 128 155171181212230 253 —The present text is that used in the edition publishedby Messrs. MacLehose & Sons in 1903, etc., and edited byS. Douglas Jackson, but the spelling has been modernisedand some of the paragraphs Hakluyt died in the same year as Shakespeare,having accomplished the task of compiling the greatprose epic of the English nation. His story is dif-fused and lacks form, balance, proportion. It is longand it is usually printed in a manner which gives afirst impression of confusion and incoherence—solidpages of small type in old spelling, unattractive tothe eye, and therefore unwelcome to the mind. Willthe reader sample his pages with me, not by pickingout disconnected extracts, with neither beginning norending, but by reading a complete voyage hereand there, and especially those of the Elizabethansea-farers? The stories are here printed in open typeon a small page. The spelling is modernised and thelongest paragraphs are broken up to allow time forbreathing and for the pauses necessary to contemplateat leisure, and wonder over, some of the most marvel-lous feats of daring and endurance of which the worldholds record. Told without rhetoric, too, and always(even when the matter in hand
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