. 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. which river the Spaniardsof late yeeres have frequented anexceeding rich trade to andfrom Peru, and the minesof Potossi, as also toChili, and otherplaces. A report of a voyage of two Englishmen in thecompany of Sebastian Cabota, intended forthe Malucos by the Streights of Magellan,but perfourmed onely to the river of Platein April 1527. Taken out of the informa-tion of M. Robe
. 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. which river the Spaniardsof late yeeres have frequented anexceeding rich trade to andfrom Peru, and the minesof Potossi, as also toChili, and otherplaces. A report of a voyage of two Englishmen in thecompany of Sebastian Cabota, intended forthe Malucos by the Streights of Magellan,but perfourmed onely to the river of Platein April 1527. Taken out of the informa-tion of M. Robert Thorne to Doctor LeyAmbassadour for King Henry the eight, toCharles the Emperour, touching the discoveryof the Malucos by the North. N a flote of three ships and a caravellthat went from this citie of Sivil armedby the merchants of it, which departedin Aprill last past, I and my partnerhave one thousand foure hundred ducketsthat wee employed in the sayd fleete,principally for that two Englishmen,friendes of mine, which are somewhat learned in Cos-mographie, should goe in the same ships, to bring mecertaine relation of the situation of the countrey, andto be expert in the navigation of those seas, and there 91. This was thejieete whereinCabot discov-ered the riverof Plate,1526. TwoEnglishmenwent withCabot in thisdiscovery. 1527. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES to have informations of many other things, and advisethat I desire to know especially. Seeing in thosequarters are ships and mariners of that countrey, andcardes by which they saile, though much unlike ours:that they should procure to have the sayd cards,and learne how they understand them, and especiallyto know what navigation they have for those IslandsNorthwards and Islands of For if from the said Islands the sea doth extendthe Malum, ^j^hout interposition of land to saile from the Northpoint to the Northeast point one thousand sevenhundred or one thousand eight hundred leagues, theyshould come to The new
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