Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ish prize. He visited California, crossedthe Pacific to China, and made his way home in February,1721, via the Cape of Good Hope. Wilham Betagh,Shelvockes captain of marines, was taken prisoner by theSpaniards, and has left an interesting narrative of his ex-periences in Peru. The account of Ansons voyages mustbe deferred to a later section (p. 292 seq.). EXPLORATION, lGJi2-174S. 45 In the way of overland tr
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ish prize. He visited California, crossedthe Pacific to China, and made his way home in February,1721, via the Cape of Good Hope. Wilham Betagh,Shelvockes captain of marines, was taken prisoner by theSpaniards, and has left an interesting narrative of his ex-periences in Peru. The account of Ansons voyages mustbe deferred to a later section (p. 292 seq.). EXPLORATION, lGJi2-174S. 45 In the way of overland travel, putting aside such journeys Travefias those of Burnet and Vicey, which were entirely confinedto AVestern Europe, we may note, as rather more of thenature of exj^loration, the travels of Edward Browne, son ofSir Thomas Browne, of Norwich, of Religio Medici fame,in Bohemia, Moravia, Hungary, and the Balkan Peninsula, in1668-9, and of Henry j\[aundrell in Syria, in 1696; but the baremention of the scope of these journeys proves that Englishenterprise at this time was not stirring in such out-of-the-wayquarters of the globe as in the time of Anthony Jenkinson(Vol HI, pp. 325, 665. srq.). Perhaps the mostextensive and interest-ing of all the overlandtravels of these lateryears are those of Dela Motraye throughEurope, Asia, and intopart of Africa (1710,1711, 1712, etc.), con-taining an unusually fulland intelligent accountof all the countries in-cluded in the OttomanEmpire, with notices oflands as far distant asLapland and CentralRussia. Though ofFrench origin, Motraye seems to have become to all intentsand purposes a naturalised Englishman. Lastly, in North America, the lions share of discovery ^^ . . , Amenean and exploration in this period fjills not to us, but to the colonies, French. Yet missionaries, such as John Eliot, who began isss-u^.his preaching in 1646, did something for the better know-ledge of the Indian lands at the back of Massachusetts; andthe grant of Carolin
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