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WORKS ISSUED BY
The Hakluyt Society.
THE
OBSERVATIONS OF
SIR RICHARD HAWKINS.
M.DCCC.XLVII.
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THE
OBSERVATIONS
OF
SIR RICHARD HAWKINS, KNT
IN HIS
VOYAGE INTO
THE SOUTH SEA
IN THE YEAR
1593.
REPRINTED FROM THE EDITION OF 1622.
EDITED BY
C. R. DRINKWATER BETHUNE,
CAPTAIN R.N.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.
M.DCCC.XLVII.
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THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.
Council.SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, G.C.St.S., F.R.S., Corr. Mem. Inst. Fr.;Hon. Mem. Imp. Acad. Sc. St. Petersburg, &c. &c., President.
| Vice-Admiral SIR CHARLES MALCOLM,mKt | Vice-Presidents. |
| The Rev. H. H. MILMAN, M.A. | |
| CHARLES T. BEKE, ESQ., PHIL. D., F.S.A. | |
| CAPTAIN C. R. DRINKWATER BETHUNE, R.N., C.B. | |
| MAJOR-GENERAL J. BRIGGS, F.R.S. | |
| CAPTAIN F. BULLOCK, R.N. | |
| BOLTON CORNEY, ESQ., M.R.S.L. | |
| CHARLES DARWIN, ESQ., F.R.S. | |
| SIR HENRY ELLIS, K.H., F.R.S. | |
| JOHN FORSTER, ESQ. | |
| J. E. GRAY, ESQ., F.R.S. | |
| W. R. HAMILTON, ESQ., F.R.S. | |
| T. HODGKIN, ESQ., M.D. | |
| SIR JAMES M’GRIGOR, BARONET, M.D., F.R.S. | |
| R. H. MAJOR, ESQ. | |
| R. MONCKTON MILNES, ESQ., M.P. | |
| SIR J. RICHARDSON, M.D., F.R.S. | |
| ANDREW SMITH, ESQ., M.D. | |
| SIR GEORGE T. STAUNTON, BARONET, M.P., F.R.S. |
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EDITOR’S PREFACE.
Many of the early voyages to the Spanish possessionsin South America, are open to the charge ofhaving been conducted more upon buccaneeringprinciples, than on those that
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