| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
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| I. | Beginnings of America | [1] |
| II. | Richard Hakluyt the Man | [17] |
| III. | “The Principal Navigations” | [32] |
| IV. | The Early Voyages | [36] |
| V. | Quest for the Northwest Passage | [53] |
| VI. | The Voyages of the Cabots | [62] |
| VII. | The English Claim to America | [77] |
| VIII. | Ventures in the Cabots’ Track | [90] |
| IX. | The Northeast Passage | [96] |
| X. | The Opening of Russia | [104] |
| XI. | Voyages for the Muscovy Company | [124] |
| XII. | Revival of the Northwest Theory | [143] |
| XIII. | Frobisher in Arctic America | [150] |
| XIV. | The Lust for Gold | [176] |
| XV. | Hawkins in Florida | [197] |
| XVI. | Drake’s Great Exploits | [227] |
| XVII. | On the Pacific Coast | [253] |
| XVIII. | Gilbert’s Voyages | [285] |
| XIX. | Footprints of Colonization | [308] |
| XX. | “Virginia” | [322] |
| XXI. | Raleigh’s Lost Colony | [351] |
| XXII. | Jamestown | [381] |