A Book of Discovery: The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South PoleSynge, M. B. (Margaret Bertha)
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A Book of Discovery: The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole
Synge, M. B. (Margaret Bertha)
Discoveries in geography
A Ship of the 16th century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
From AMORETTI'S translation of _Magellan's Voyage round the
World_.
"Hondius his Map of the Magellan Streight" . . . . . . . . . . . 201
From a Map by JODOCUS HONDIUS, about 1590.
The first Ship that sailed round the World . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Magellan's _Victoria_, from HULSIUS'S _Collection of Voyages_,
1602.
Hernando Cortes, Conqueror of Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
After the original Portrait at Mexico.
The Battles of the Spaniards in Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
From an ancient Aztec Drawing.
Pizarro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
From the Portrait at Cuzco.
Peru and South America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
From the Map of the World, 1544, usually ascribed to SEBASTIAN
CABOT.
Peruvian Warriors of the Inca Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
From an ancient Peruvian Painting.
Part of North America, showing Sebastian Cabot's Voyage to
Newfoundland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
From the Map of 1544, usually ascribed to CABOT.
Jacques Cartier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
From an old Pen-drawing at the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.
Canada and the River St. Lawrence, showing Quebec . . . . . . . . 231
From LESCARBOT'S _Histoire de la Nouvelle France_, 1609.
New France, showing Newfoundland, Labrador, and the St. Lawrence 233
From JOCOMO DI GASTALDI'S Map, about 1550.
Ivan Vasiliwich, King of Muscovie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
From an old Woodcut.
Anthony Jenkinson's Map of Russia, Muscovy, and Tartary . . . . 242-3
Published in 1562.
Greenlanders as seen by Martin Frobisher . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
From Captain BESTE'S Account of Frobisher's _Voyages_, 1578.
Sir Francis Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
From HOLLAND'S _Heroologia_, 1620.
The Silver Map of the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
From Medallion in British Museum.
The Silver Map of the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
From Medallion in British Museum.
The _Golden Hind_ at New Albion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
From the Chart of Drake's _Voyages_.
The _Golden Hind_ at Java . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
From the Chart of Drake's _Voyages_.
An Eskimo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
From a Water-colour Drawing by JOHN WHITE, about 1585.
A Ship of the late 16th century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
From Ortelius, 1598.
Nova Zembla and the Arctic Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
From a Map in DE BRY'S _Grands Voyages_, 1598.
Barents in the Arctic--"Hut wherein we wintered" . . . . . . . . 269
From DE VEER'S Account of the _Voyages of Barents_, 1598.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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