Cathay and the Road Thither. A collection of all minor notices of China, previous to the Sixteenth Century. Translated and edited by Colonel H. Yule, C.B.
The Fifth Letter of Hernan Cortes, describing his Voyage to Honduras in 1525-26. Translated and edited by William Stirling, Esq., M.P.
John Huigen van Linschoten. Discourse of a Voyage unto the East Indies; to be reprinted from the English translation of 1598, and edited by the Rev. G. P. Badger, F.R.G.S.
Description of Africa and of the Notable Things in it, by John Leo Africanus. To be translated from Ramusio, and edited, with Notes and an Introduction, by Dr. H. Barth, C.B., Hon. Corr. Mem. F.R.G.S.
WORKS SUGGESTED TO THE COUNCIL FOR PUBLICATION.
Voyages of Alvaro de Mandana and Pedro Fernandez de Quiros in the South Seas, to be translated from Suarez de Figueroa’s “Hechos del Marques de Cañete,” and Torquemada’s “Monarquia Indiana.”
Inedited Letters, etc., of Sir Thomas Roe during his Embassy to India.
The Travels of Duarte Barbosa in the East, to be translated from the Portuguese.
The Voyage of John Saris to India and Japan in 1611-13, from a manuscript copy of his Journal, dated 1617.
Pigasetta’s Narrative of the Voyage of Magalhaens, to be translated from the Italian text, edited by Amoretti.