This first Volume containing the woorthy Discoueries, &c. of the English toward the North and Northeast by Sea, as of _Lapland_, _Scriksinia_, _Corelia_, the Baie of S. _Nicholas_, the Isles of _Colgoieue_, _Vaigatz_, and _Noua Zembla_, toward the great riuer _Ob_, with the mighty Empire of _Russia_, the _Caspian_ sea, _Georgia_, _Armenia_, _Media_, _Persia_, _Boghar_ in _Bactria_, and diuers kingdoms of _Tartaria_: Together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of _England_ in former ages. _Whereunto is annexed also a briefe Commentarie of the true_ state of _Island_, and of the Northren Seas and lands situate that way. _And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, Anno_ 1588. and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of _Cadiz_, 1596. are described. _By_ RICHARD HACKLVYT _Master of_ Artes, and sometime Student of Christ-Church in Oxford. [Illustration] Imprinted at London by GEORGE BISHOP, RALPH NEWBERIE and ROBERT BARKER. 1598. Reduced Leaf in original, 7 × 10.87 inches. Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific--and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise-- Silent, upon a peak in Darien. KEATS _Mulciber in Troiam, pro Troia stabat Apollo._ HOMER THE WHOLE WORKS OF HOMER; PRINCE OF POETTS In his Iliads, and Odysses. _Translated according to the Greeke, By Geo: Chapman._ De Ili: et Odiss: