=1578.= Thomas Churchyard’s _Prayse and Report of Maister Martyne Forboisher’s Voyage to Meta Incognita_, London. Bohn’s _Lowndes_, p. 450, reports a copy in the British Museum. =1578.= George Best published his _True Discourse of the late voyage of discoverie for the finding of a passage to Cathaya by the North-weast, under the Conduct of Martin Frobisher, generall_. This is also very rare. See _Carter-Brown Catalogue_, no. 319, which shows the two rare maps, a portion of one of which is given in fac-simile in ch. iii. from that in Collinson’s _Martin Frobisher_. =1578.= Thomas Nicholas printed, under his initials only, an English version of Gomara’s account of Cortes’ conquest of New Spain, called _The Pleasant Historie of the Conquest of the Weast Indies_. Fine copies are worth about £10. There are copies in the Boston Athenæum, Lenox Library, etc. See _Carter-Brown Catalogue_, p. 275, for fac-simile of title; Sabin’s _Dictionary_, vii. 311; W. C. Hazlitt’s _Bibliog. Coll. and notes_, 2d ser. p. 265. =1580.= A new edition of Frampton’s _Joyfull Newes_. This edition is worth about £4. There is a copy in Harvard College Library. Rich, _Catalogue_, 1832, no. 64. =1580.= John Florio published a retranslation into English from Ramusio’s Italian version of Cartier’s _Voyage to New France_ (1534), which had appeared originally in French, but was not now apparently accessible to Florio. _Carter-Brown Catalogue_, no. 331. =1581.= T. Nicholas published an English translation, now very rare, of Zarate’s account of the Conquest of Peru. =1582.= Hakluyt began his active participation in furthering English maritime exploration by his first publication, the little _Divers Voyages_, dedicating it to Sir Philip Sidney; and in this he says: “I marvaile not a little ... that we of England could never have the grace to set fast footing in such fertill and temperate places as are left as yet unpossessed.” Again he says: “In my public lectures I was the first that produced and showed both the olde imperfectly composed and the new lately reformed mappes, globes, and spheares, to the generall contentment of my auditory.” See further in Mr. Deane’s chapter on “The Cabots.” Cf. W. C. Hazlitt’s _Bibliog. Coll. and notes_, 1st ser. p. 101. There is, unfortunately, no sufficiently extended account of Hakluyt, and the most we know of him must be derived from his own publications. The brief account in Anthony Wood’s _Athenæ Oxonienses_ is the source of most of the notices. Mr. J. Payne Collier has added something in a paper on “Richard Hakluyt and American Discovery” in the _Archæologia_, xxxiii. 383; and Mr. Winter Jones in his Introduction to the reprint of the _Divers Voyages_ has told about all that can be gleaned, and in his Appendix he gives some papers before unprinted, including Hakluyt’s will. The subject has had later treatment, with the advantage of some recent information, in the Introduction to the _Westerne Planting_, by Dr. Woods and Mr. Deane.