QUEEN ELIZABETH 180 SIR JOHN HAWKINS 198 SIR FRANCIS DRAKE 228 DRAKE OVERHAULING A SPANISH GALLEON 268 SIR WALTER RALEIGH AT THE AGE OF THIRTY-FOUR 310 From a photograph, copyrighted by Walker and Cockerell, of the portrait attributed to Federigo Zaccaro in the National Portrait Gallery. THE ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISHMEN IN VIRGINIA 324 From a drawing by John White, of Raleigh’s first colony, 1585. A MAP OF VIRGINIA, 1585 350 From the map in Hariot’s “Relation.” THE LOST COLONY 376 A SPANISH GALLEON OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 382 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE BOY’S HAKLUYT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE BOY’S HAKLUYT I BEGINNINGS OF AMERICA In the year 1582, a quarter of a century before the founding of Jamestown, in 1607, and thirty-eight years before the establishment of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, in 1620, there appeared in London a pamphlet-volume entitled _Divers Voyages touching the Discouerie of America and the Hands adaicent vnto the same, made first of all by our Englishmen and afterwards by the Frenchmen and Britons_. The direct and practical object of this little book was the promotion of English colonization on the American continent, where Spain at the South and France at the North then had firm foothold. Its mission was fully accomplished in giving the first effective impulse to the movements which led up to the ultimate establishment of the colonies that eventually formed the United States. So it has a peculiar interest, especially for all Americans who would know their country, as a first source of the True History of the American Nation. The name of the compiler was modestly veiled in the earlier impressions under the initials “R. H.” appended to an “Epistle Dedicatorie,” addressed to “Master Phillip Sydney, Esquire,” which served for a preface. In subsequent editions, however, the author declared himself as “Richard Hakluyt, Preacher.”