FOR the authoritative accounts of William Hawkins’s Brazilian voyages, we must go to Hakluyt’s third volume, as published in 1600. In it likewise we shall find the account of the West Indian voyages of Sir John Hawkins in 1562, 1564, and 1567-68. We may also read them in the usual compilations drawn from Hakluyt, among the latest of which is _The Elizabethan Seamen_ of Payne, who remarks that “nothing which Englishmen had done in connection with America previous to those voyages had any result worth recording.” Lowndes, in his _Bibliographer’s Manual_, gives an edition, in 1569 (London), of John Hawkins’s _True Declaration of the Troublesome Voyages to the Partes of Guynea and the West Indies_; but Sabin (_Dictionary_, viii. 157) thinks it was only printed in Hakluyt. [Illustration: A SKETCH OF HONDIUS’S MAP. A sketch of a part of Hondius’s map of the world, on which Drake’s route is marked; it is taken from a fac-simile in the Hakluyt Society’s edition of The World Encompassed. Key:— 1. Nova Albion, sic a Francisco Draco, 1579, dicta qui bis ab incolis eodem die diademate redimitus, eandem Reginæ Angliæ consecravit. 2. Hic præ ingenti frigore in Austrum reverti coactus est lat. 42 die 5 Junii. 3. Cozones. 4. [Drake’s Bay]. 5. Tigues. 6. I. de passao. 7. California. 8. San Miguel. 9. Damantes. 10. Mare Vermeo. 11. S. Thomas.] Fox Browne, in his _English Merchants_, chap. viii., shows the relations which Hawkins in his day established with British commerce. _The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knight, in his Vojage jnto the South Sea, Anno Domini 1593_, was printed in London in 1622,[162] and was reprinted in 1847 by the Hakluyt Society, under the editing of Captain C. R. D. Bethune. The book gives us some useful notes upon the aborigines of Florida and the regions farther south. The most convenient embodiment, however, of the ancient records and of modern criticisms upon all the exploits of the Hawkinses is in the volume of the Hakluyt Society for 1878,—_The Hawkins’ Voyages during the Reigns of Henry VIII., Queen Elizabeth, and James I._, edited, with an Introduction, by the careful hand of Clements R. Markham. Here we have not only what Hakluyt has preserved for us, but the _Observations_ of 1622, and other journals and narratives. [Illustration: PORTUS NOVÆ ALBIONIS. This is an outline sketch of the map of Drake’s Bay given in the margin of Hondius’s map, but which is omitted in the reproduction of that map in the Hakluyt Society’s edition of _The World Encompassed_. The map is rare, and our sketch follows another belonging to Mr. Charles Deane. Key:—1. A group of Indian houses. 2. Place of the ship. 3. Portus Novæ Albionis. 4. A group of the English conferring with the natives.