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A

GENERAL

HISTORY AND COLLECTION

OF

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS,

ARRANGED IN SYSTEMATIC ORDER:

FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS

OF NAVIGATION, DISCOVERY, AND COMMERCE,

BY SEA AND LAND,

FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT TIME.

BY

ROBERT KERR, F.R.S. & F.A.S. EDIN.

ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS AND CHARTS.

VOL. VIII.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH:

AND T. CADELL, LONDON.

MDCCCXXIV.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII.

PART II.--(Continued.)

BOOK III.--(Continued.)

CHAPTERIX.--(Continued.)

Early Voyages of the English to the East Indies before theEstablishment of an Exclusive Company.

SECTION IV. Voyage of Mr John Eldred, by Sea, to Tripoli inSyria, and thence by Land and River to Bagdat and Basora, in1583.

SECTION V. Of the Monsoons, or periodical Winds, with whichShips depart from Place to Place in India. By William Barret.

SECTION VI. First Voyage of the English to India in 1591;begun by Captain George Raymond, and completed by Captain JamesLancaster.

SECTION VII. Supplementary Account of the former Voyage, byJohn May.

SECTION VIII. The unfortunate Voyage of Captain Benjamin Wood,towards the East Indies, in 1596.

SECTION IX. Voyage of Captain John Davis to the East Indies,in 1598, as Pilot to a Dutch Ship.

SECTION X. Voyage of William Adams to Japan, in 1598, and longresidence in that Island.

Introduction.

SECTION 1. Brief Relation of the Voyage of Sebalt de Wert tothe Straits of Magellan.

SECTION 2. First Letter of William Adams.

SECTION 3. Letter of William Adams to his Wife.

SECTION XI. Voyage of Sir Edward Michelburne to India, in1604.

CHAPTER X.

Early Voyages of the English to India, after theEstablishment, of the East India Company.

Introduction.

SECTION I. First Voyage of the English East India Company, in1601, under the Command of Captain James Lancaster.