Americans may well claim the pride of inheritance in these brave annals of adventure on untried seas and to unknown lands. Hakluyt’s quaint language ought not to be a hard nut to crack for the American boy when such rich meat is within.

E. M. B.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
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]

ILLUSTRATIONS

Queen Elizabeth Going Aboard the “Golden Hind”
From a painting by Frank Brangwyn.[Frontispiece]
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Fac-simile of Title-page of “Divers Voyages”[10]
From the copy in the New York Public Library (Lenox Building).
Fac-simile of Title-page of the Third, or American, Volume of Hakluyt’s “Voyages,” Edition of 1598–1600[32]
From a copy of the original edition in the New York Public Library (Lenox Building).
“The Great Harry,” an English Ship of the Fifteenth Century[50]
Kidder’s Sketch-map of John Cabot’s Voyage in 1497[69]
King Henry VIII[94]
From a photograph, copyrighted by Walker and Boutall, of a painting.
Sebastian Cabot at About Eighty Years of Age[136]
Reproduced from the engraving in Seyer’s "History of Bristol," published in 1823. The original painting was attributed to Holbein and was destroyed by fire in 1845.
Martin Frobisher[144]
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]

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