. 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 . ed on 25 thMay 1622 (Markham, John Davis the Navigator^Hakluyt Society, 1880). The Map is interestingas being one of the few attempts to apply theprinciples of Mercators projection before theircorrect demonstration by Edward Wright. Theengraved margin shows the inhabitants and products ILLUSTRATIONS of the various divisions of the globe, * Mexicanarepresenting North America,
. 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 . ed on 25 thMay 1622 (Markham, John Davis the Navigator^Hakluyt Society, 1880). The Map is interestingas being one of the few attempts to apply theprinciples of Mercators projection before theircorrect demonstration by Edward Wright. Theengraved margin shows the inhabitants and products ILLUSTRATIONS of the various divisions of the globe, * Mexicanarepresenting North America, * Peruana SouthAmerica, and Magallanica the supposed greatSouthern Continent. The celestial circles, withthe quaint drawings of the principal constella-tions, are also of great interest. The Map isreproduced from a copy of Linschotens Itinerario(published at Amsterdam in 1604-5) in the BritishMuseum. THE NINTH VOLUME OF THE Principall Navigations, Voyages, Traffiquesand Discoveries of the English Nation Made to florida and New Mexico ; certeine Voyages made for the discovery ot the Gulfe of California, and to the famous city of Mexico, with the Discourses and Letters depending upon the Voyages of this ninth Volume. The second voyage unto Florida, made and writtenby Captaine Laudonniere, which fortified andinhabited there two Summers and one wholeWinter. Fter our arrivall at Diepe, at our comminghome, from our first voyage (which wasthe twentieth of July 1562) we foundthe civil warres begun, which was inpart the cause why our men were notsuccoured, as Captaine John Ribault hadpromised them : whereof it fDllowed thatCaptaine Albert was killed by his souldiers, and thecountry abandoned, as heretofore we have sufficientlydiscoursed, and as it may more at large be understoodby those men which were there in person. After thepeace was made in France, my Lord Admiral De Chas-tillon shewed unto the king, that he heard no newes atall of the men which Captaine John Ribault had left inFlor
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