A

GENERAL

HISTORY AND COLLECTION

OF

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS,

ARRANGED IN SYSTEMATIC ORDER:

FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS

OF NAVIGATION, DISCOVERY, AND COMMERCE,

BY SEA AND LAND,

FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT TIME.


BY

ROBERT KERR, F.R.S. & F.A.S. EDIN.


ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS AND CHARTS.

VOL. II.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH:

AND T. CADELL, LONDON.

MDCCCXXIV.


CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

PART I.--(Continued.)

Voyages and Travels of Discovery, from the Era of Alfred, King ofEngland, in the Ninth Century, to the Era of Don Henry, Prince ofPortugal, at the commencement of the Fifteenth Century.

CHAPTER XX.

Account of various early Pilgrimages from England to the HolyLand, between the years 1097, and 1107.

CHAPTER XXI.

Discovery of Madeira

CHAPTER XXII.

Account of the Discovery and Conquest of the Canary Islands

PART II.

General Voyages and Travels, chiefly of Discovery; from the era ofDon Henry Prince of Portugal, in 1412, to that of George III. in1760.

BOOK I.

History of the Discoveries of the Portuguese along the Coast ofAfrica, and of their Discovery of and Conquests in India, from 1412to 1505[A]

[A] This title was omitted to be inserted in its properplace, and may be supplied in writing on the blank page opposite topage 23 of this volume.

CHAPTER I.

Summary of the Discoveries of the World, from their firstoriginal, to the year 1555, by Antonio Galvano

CHAPTER II.

Journey of Ambrose Contarini, Ambassador from the Republic ofVenice, to Uzun-Hassan King of Persia, in the years 1473, 4, 5, and6; written by himself

CHAPTER III.

Voyages of Discovery by the Portuguese along the Western Coast ofAfrica, during the life, and under the direction of Don Henry

CHAPTER IV.

Original Journals of the Voyages of Cada Mosto, and Pedro deCintra, to the Coast of Africa; the former in the years 1455 and1406, and the latter soon afterwards

CHAPTER V.

Continuation of the Portuguese Discoveries along the Coast ofAfrica, from the death of Don Henry in 1463, to the Discovery of theCape of Good Hope in 1486

CHAPTER VI.

History of the Discovery and Conquest of India by the Portuguese,between the years 1497 and 1505, from the original Portuguese ofHernan Lopez de Castaneda

CHAPTER VII.

Letters from Lisbon in the beginning of the Sixteenth Century,respecting the then recent Discovery of the Route by Sea to India,and the Indian trade

Note . In p. 292 of this volume, 1, 2 and 18, the date of1525 ought to have been 1505.


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