E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 36242-h.htm or 36242-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36242/pg36242-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/36242/36242-h.zip) NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO THE WEST INDIES AND MEXICO IN THE YEARS 1599-1602, * * * * * WORKS ISSUED BY The Hakluyt Society. NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO THE WEST INDIES AND MEXICO. FIRST SERIES. NO. XXIII-MDCCCLIX * * * * * [Illustration: Facsimile of MS.] NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO THE WEST INDIES AND MEXICO IN THE YEARS 1599-1602, With Maps and illustrations. by SAMUEL CHAMPLAIN. Translated from the Original and Unpublished Manuscript, with a Biographical Notice and Notes by Alice Wilmere. Edited by Norton Shaw. Burt Franklin, Publisher New York, New York Published by Burt Franklin 514 West 113th Street New York 25, N.Y. Originally Published by The Hakluyt Society Reprinted by Permission Printed in the U.S.A. * * * * * THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY. SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, G.C.St.S., F.R.S., D.C.L., Corr. Mem. Inst. Fr., Hon. Mem. Imp. Acad. So. St. Petersburg, &c., &c., PRESIDENT. THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE. } }VICE-PRESIDENTS. REAR-ADMIRAL C. R. DRINKWATER BETHUNE, C.B. } RT. HON. LORD BROUGHTON. BERIAH BOTFIELD, ESQ. THE LORD ALFRED SPENCER CHURCHILL. CHARLES WENTWORTH DILKE, ESQ., F.S.A. RT. HON. SIR DAVID DUNDAS. SIR HENRY ELLIS, K.H., F.R.S. JOHN FORSTER, ESQ. LIEUT.-GEN. CHARLES RICHARD FOX. R. W. GREY, ESQ., M.P. EGERTON HARCOURT, ESQ. JOHN WINTER JONES, ESQ., F.S.A. HIS EXCELLENCY THE COUNT DE LAVRADIO. RT. HON. ROBERT LOWE, M.P. R. H. MAJOR, ESQ., F.S.A. SIR HENRY RAWLINSON, K.C.B. THE EARL OF SHEFFIELD. CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, ESQ., HONORARY SECRETARY. * * * * * INTRODUCTION. The manuscript, of which the following is a translation, as literal as the idioms of the two languages admit, is in the possession of Monsieur Féret, the learned and extremely obliging librarian of the Public Library at Dieppe. Of its originality and authenticity there can be no doubt; the internal evidence of similarity in style, diction, and orthography even, with the published account of Champlain's _Voyages in New France_, would alone suffice to establish those points.[1]