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Hakluytus Posthumus, Or Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME FROM THE SAGE ENDOWMENT FUND THE GIFT OF 1891 4.^052j^a, C>, Cornell University Library The original of tiiis bool< is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924065997268 Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes In Twenty Volumes Volume XIV GLASGOW PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE & COMPANY LTD. FOR JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS, PUBLISHERS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW MACMILLAN AND CO. LTD. LONDON THE MACMILLAN CO. NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA TORONTO SIMPKIN, HAMILTON AND CO. LONDON MACMILLAN AND BOWES CAMBRIDGE DOUGLAS AND FOULIS EDINBURGH MCMVI Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and others By SAMUEL PURCHAS, B.D. VOLUME XIV Glasgow James MacLehose and Sons Publishers to the University l\.%oS'2.4t THE TABLE. PAGE The Contents of the Chapters and Paragraphs in the fourth Booke of the Second part of Purchas his Pilgrims. CHAP. I. A Voyage set forth by the Right Worshipfull Sir Thomas Smith, and the rest of the Muscovie Company, to Cherry Hand : and for a fiirther Discoverie to bee made towards the North-Pole, for the likelihood of a Trade or a passage that way, in a Ship called the Amitie, of burthen seventie tunnes ; in the which I Jonas Poole was Master, having foureteene Men and one Boy: Anno Dom. 1610H. .... i Jonas Pooles Voyage for Northerne discovery. Jonas Pooles Discoverie of Greenland. Names of places. Jonas Poole giveth names to divers places in Greenland. Qose-cove danger. Crosse-Road. Beasts in Green- land. Variation. Whales. Sea-unicornes borne. Greenland-discovery. Beares and Deere slaine. Young Beares taken. Sea-coale found. Bucks fat. Ice and fogs, hinderance to Northerne Discoveries. A briefe note what Beasts, Fowles, and Fishes were seene in this Land. ........ 23 Beasts, fowles and fishes found in Greenland. [Chap. II. — THE TABLE The Contents of the Chapters Continued. page CHAP. II. A Commission for Jonas Poole our Servant, appointed Master of a small Barke called the Elizabeth, of liftie tunnes burthen, for Discovery to the Northward of Greeneland, given the last day of May, 1 6l0. H.P. ... 24 Instructions to Edge and Poole for Northerne discovery. CHAP. III. A briefe Declaration of this my Voyage of Discovery to Greeneland, and towards the West of it, as foUoweth : being set forth by the right WorshipfuU Sir Thomas Smith, Governour of the right WorshipfuU Company of new Trades, &c. written by Jonas Poole. H. 34 Greeneland Voyage Anno 161 1. Ice, Whales, Morses. Mary Margaret lost. Woodcocke and Marmaduke. The Allen a strange qualited fowle. Other fowles and beasts. CHAP. nil. A Relation written by Jonas Poole of a Voyage to Greene- land, in the yeere 161 2. with two Shippes, the one called the Whale, the other the Seahorse, set out by the right WorshipfuU the Muscovie Merchants. H. 41 Dutch Merchant slaine. Thomas Marmadukes discoveries. Nicolas Woodcock. Morses and Whales. Basks and Hollanders. CHAP. V. A Journall of the Voyage made to Greeneland with sixe English Shippes and a Pinnasse, in the yeere 1613. written by Master William Baffin. H.P. ... 47 Baffins quick voyage to Greenland. Spanish and Dutch there. Kings Armes and Crosse set up. Th. Bonner — THE TABLE The Contents of the Chapters Continued. Pilot to the Dutch. Midnight Sunne. Crosse set up. Biscainers and Dutchmen. Many Whales killed. Rocks full of Foule. Greeneland. Refraction altered with the aire. CHAP. VI. A Voyage of Discovery to Greeneland, &c. An. 1614. written by Ro. Fotherbye. H.P 61 Fotherbies Greenland discovery. Troubles by Ice. Hack- luyts Head-land in Greenland. Many Holland ships. Kings Armes set up in Trinitie Harbour. Cape Barren. Sadie Hand. Hackluits Head-land. Faire- Haven. Further Discovery of Greenland Coasts. Fotherby and Baffin. Wiches-sound. Sir Thomas Smiths Inlet. Holland Discoverers. Cause of Ice in the Seas. Red-clifFe Sound. Point Welcome. Kings Armes erected at Point Welcome. Point Deceit. Corpo Santo, either before or after a storme. CHAP. VII. A true report of a Voyage, Anno 161 5. for Discoverie of Seas, Lands, and Hands, to the Northwards ; as it was performed by Robert Fotherbie, in a Pinnasse of twenty tunnes called the Richerd of London. H.P. 8z Northerne Discoverie, Error of Gronland. Kings Armes set up. Mount Hackluyt in Sir Thomas Smiths Hand. A Letter of Robert Fotherby to Captain Edge, written in Crosse-rode, July 15. 1615 89 Fotherbyes opinion and advice. King of Denmarks ships. CHAP. VIII. Divers other Voyages to Greenland, with Letters of those which were there employed, communicated to me by Master William Heley, in the yeere 1617. 1618. 1619. 1620. 1621. 1623. ....... 91 Edges Hand and Witches Hand discovered. Store of lading 161 7. — THE TABLE The Contents of the Chapters Continued. ""ac^ A Letter of Master Robert Salmon to Master Sherwin. In Sir Thomas Smiths Bay, the 24. of June l6l 8. 94 Hurt by Ice : more by Hollanders. A Letter of Master Th. Sherwin : Bell-sound this 29. of June, 1618 95 A Letter of James Beversham to Master Heley. From Faire-haven, the 12. of July, 161 8 96 Greenland Letters, 1618. A Letter of John Chambers to W. Heley, Bel-sound, June 16. 1619 9^ Heley from Faire-hllven. A Letter of J. Catcher to Master Laus Deo, this seventeenth of June, 1620. .100 Holland Nation honorable, notwithstanding some foule mouthes. A Letter of Robert Salmon from Sir Thomas Smiths Bay, July 6. 1621 loi Laus Deo in Falre Haven, the foure and twentieth of June, 1623. ........ 103 Salmon and Catchers Greeneland Letters. Master Catchers Letter : the nine and twentieth of June 1623 105 Hollanders strong Fleete. Greeneland Letters. Captaine William Goodlards Letter : Bel-sound this eight of July, 1623. .106 Peter Goodlard drowned. Difference of Whales. CHAP. IX. The late changes and manifold alterations in Russia since Ivan Vasilowich to this present, gathered out of many Letters and Observations of English Embassadours and other Travellers in those parts. .108 — ;: THE TABLE The Contents of the Chapters Continued. '*«£ §. I. Of the reigne of Ivan, Pheodore his sonne ; and of Boris. ...... 108 Pestilence and Famine in Russia. Goodnesse truest Great- nesse. Supersuperlatives of crueltie by Ivan Vasilovyich Beak. Russe Merchants too much Russian. The most solemne and magnificent coronation of Pheodor Ivanowich, Emperour of Russia, &c. the tenth of June, in the yeere 1584. seene and observed by Master Jerom Horsey Gentleman, and servant to her Majestie. 1 14 Ivans good parts, death, &c. Pompous Ceremonies of Russia Emperours Coronation. Solemnitie of Pheodors Coronation. Strife for precedence. Sir Jerom Horseys double employment to and from Russia. Divorce subscribed by 300. Boiarens. Boris plots. Demetrius slain. Pheodore dieth. Empresse a Nun. Boris saith nay oft, but takes. Solemne Coronation. Boris his Issue, Acts and Arts. §. 2. Occurrents of principall Note which happened in Russia, in the time while the Honorable Sir Thomas Smith remained there Embassadour from his Majestie. 132 Sir T. Smiths Embassage to Russia : his entertaynment. Pompous magnificence. Solemne audience by Emp. Boris and his sonne. Glorious Feast. Q. Elizabeths glorie. Drinking Ceremonies. Newes of Demetrius. John of Denmarke and Oucsinia. Boris his promises sudden death ; rites ; person ; sonne. Vice a slavery : politike charitie. Basman shifteth. Mutinie. Dem. his letters. Mosco in uprore. Emp. and his mothers death. Emperour Boris his Charter to the English Moscovie Company. §. 3. One pretending himselfe to be Demetrius, with the Popes and Poles helpes attaineth the Russian Empire his Arts, Acts, Mariage, favour to the English, and miserable end. .157 Jesuits coine. Pope makes currant ; Pole paints over a new Demetrius. Thuanus his Historie of the Russian Emperor Demetrius. Demetry's Embassy to the Pole. — ; THE TABLE The Contents of the Chapters Continued. page The Copie of a Letter sent from the Emperor Demetry Evanowich, otherwise called Grishco Otreapyove. 164. The Copie of the translation of a Commission that was sent from the Mosko, from the Emperour Demetry Evanowich, alias Gryshca Otreapyove by a Courtier named Gavaryla Samoylowich Salmanove, who was sent downe to the Castle of Archangell, to Sir Thomas Smith, then Lord Embassadour. 1 66 Letter and Passe to S. John Merick. The Copie of the Translation of a new Priviledge that was given to the Company, by the Emperour Demetry Evanowich, otherwise called Gryshca Otreapyove, the which Priviledge was sent into England over-land by Olyver Lysset Merchant, and servant to the foresaid Company. ... .... 168 The Messengers instruction and speech to Sir Th. Smith. Embass. Demetry's Charter of Priviledges to English Merchants. The Copie of the translation of a Contract, made by the Emperour Demetry Evanowich, otherwise called Gryscha Otreapyove, and the daughter of the Palatine Sendamersko, chiefe Generall of Poland. 172 Contract-compact betwixt Demetrius and Palatin Senda- mersko. Demetrius his compact ; marriage ; securitie late provision. Peter Basman and Demetrius slaine. Merchants spoiled. Relations of Demetrius his vices, &c. and of Suiskey. Demetrius his vision and death. Cap. Gilbert. §. 4. The Copie of the Translation of a Letter sent from the new Emperour Vassily Evanowich Shoskey to the Kings Majesty by Master John Mericke. 1 84. Suiskys letter. Russe story of Demetrius in a letter of Suisky to K. James. Romish Religion, Jesuites. Russian Empire. Popes Letter. Election of Swiskey. New Patent. Polish insolencies. Lot oracle. Suiskys — ; THE TABLE The Contents of the Chapters Continued. page vices and embassage. Demetry's multiplied. Poles invasion. King Charles his letter of agreement with voluntaries. English Voluntaries serve the Sweden.
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