Transcriber’s note
The spelling and punctuation in the original are inconsistent.No corrections have been made except those that have been noted explicitly.
The maps referred to on the title page and after the Dedication were notpresent in the original.
A SVMMARIE
AND TRVE DISCOVRSE
OF SIR FRANCES DRAKES
VVest Indian Voyage.
Saint Iago, Sancto Domingo, Cartagena,
and Saint Augustine.
Tovvnes vvith their scituations, and the maner
of the Armies approching to the vvinning
of them: diligently made by
BAPTISTA BOAZIO.
Lambard Hill, neere olde Fish-streete.
1589.
ROBERT D’EVREVX, EARLE
OF ESSEX AND EVVE, VISCOVNT
of Hereford and Bourchier, Lord Ferrers of
Chartley, Bourchier, and Louaine, Maister
of the Queenes Maiesties horse,
and knight of the most honorable
order of the Garter. T. C.
vvisheth increase of all
honour and happinesse.
Right Honorable, hauing by chaunce recouered of late into my handes(after I had once lost the same) a copie of the Discourse of our lateWest Indian Voyage, which was begun by Captaine Bigges; who ended hislife in the said voyage after our departure from Cartagena, the samebeing afterwardes finished (as I thinke) by his Lieutenant MaisterCroftes, or some other, I know not well who. Now finding therein a mosttrue report of the seruices and other matters which happened in the saidvoyage, the sight whereof is wonderfully desired of manie honest andwell disposed persons. I haue presumed to recommend the publishingthereof, vnto your Lordships protectionand fauour, for these twocauses. The one, for that your Lordships honourable disposition is inthe knowledge of all men that know your selfe, most thirstingly affectedto embrace in your owne person, the brauest enterprises, if the timewould once afford anie such fit occasion, as might be agreeable to herMaiesties resolution: who wisely (and long may she do it) gouerneth allthinges to the greatest aduantage of her selfe and people. The other,because my selfe hauing bene a member in the said actions, and wasLieutenant of Maister Carleils owne companie, whereby I can well assurethe truth of this report: I thought it my bounden duetie, hauingprofessed my seruice to your Lordship before all men, to dedicate thesame BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!
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