Produced by KD Weeks, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Full page images have been moved slightly to the nearest paragraph break. They were not included in the pagination of the original. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. THE BOY’S HAKLUYT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IN THE SAME SERIES PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ =The Boy’s Catlin.= My Life Among the Indians, by GEORGE CATLIN. Edited by MARY GAY HUMPHREYS. Illustrated. 12mo _net_ $1.50 =The Boy’s Hakluyt.= English Voyages of Adventure and Discovery, retold from Hakluyt by EDWIN M. BACON. Illustrated. 12mo _net_ $1.50 =The Boy’s Drake.= Edited by EDWIN M. BACON. (_In Preparation_) [Illustration: QUEEN ELIZABETH GOING ABOARD THE “GOLDEN HIND.” From a painting by Frank Brangwyn. ] THE BOY’S HAKLUYT ENGLISH VOYAGES OF ADVENTURE AND DISCOVERY BY EDWIN M. BACON, AUTHOR OF “HISTORIC PILGRIMAGES IN NEW ENGLAND,” “LITERARY PILGRIMAGES IN NEW ENGLAND,” “THE CONNECTICUT RIVER AND THE VALLEY OF THE CONNECTICUT,” ETC. ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1910 COPYRIGHT 1908, 1909, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS -- Published September, 1908 [Illustration: logos] PREFACE