. 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 compasse of these 1600 yeeres. r of Plate, the Streight ofMagellan, the South Sea, or far-ther that way, being reservedfor the generall heades nextinsuing. A brief relation of two sundry voyages made bythe worshipful M. William Haukins of Plim-mouth, father to Sir John Haukins knight, lateTreasurer of her Majesties Navie, in theyeere 1530 and 1532. Lde M. William Haukins of Plimmouth,a man for his wisedome,
. 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 compasse of these 1600 yeeres. r of Plate, the Streight ofMagellan, the South Sea, or far-ther that way, being reservedfor the generall heades nextinsuing. A brief relation of two sundry voyages made bythe worshipful M. William Haukins of Plim-mouth, father to Sir John Haukins knight, lateTreasurer of her Majesties Navie, in theyeere 1530 and 1532. Lde M. William Haukins of Plimmouth,a man for his wisedome, valure, experi-ence, and skill in sea causes much es-teemed, and beloved of K. Henry the8, and being one of the principall Sea-captaines in the West parts of Englandin his time, not contented with theshort voyages commonly then made onely to theknowne coasts of Europe, armed out a tall and goodlyshippe of his owne of the burthen of 250 tunnes,called the Paule of Plimmouth, wherwith he made threelong and famous voyages unto the coast of Brasil, athing in those dayes very rare, especially to our the course of which voyages he touched at the riverof Sestos upon the coast of Guinea, where hee traffiqued 23. 1530-32. The secondvoyage of king ofBrasilbrought intoEngland. [III. 701.] THE ENGLISH VOYAGES with the Negros, and tooke of them Elephants teeth,and other commodities which that place yeeldeth: andso arriving on the coast of Brasil, he used there suchdiscretion, and behaved himself so wisely with thosesavage people, that he grew into great familiarity andfriendship with them. Insomuch that in his secondvoyage, one of the savage kings of the countrey ofBrasil, was contented to take ship with him, and to betransported hither into England: whereunto M. Haukinsagreed, leaving behinde in the Countery as a pledge forhis safetie and returne againe, one Martin Cockeram ofPlimmouth. This Brasilian king being arrived, wasbrought up to London an
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