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. VII.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH:

AND T. CADELL, LONDON.

MDCCCXXIV.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII.

PART II.--(Continued.)

BOOK III.--(Continued.)

CONTINUATION OF THE DISCOVERIES AND CONQUESTS OF THE PORTUGUESE IN THE EAST; TOGETHER WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE EARLY VOYAGES OF OTHER EUROPEAN NATIONS TO INDIA.

CHAPTER IV.--(Continued.)

Continuation of the Portuguese transactions in India, after the return of Don Stefano de Gama from Suez in 1541, to the Reduction of Portugal under the Dominion of Spain in 1581.

SECTION XIII. Account of an expedition of the Portuguese from India to Madagascar in 1613.

SECTION XIV. Continuation of the transactions of the Portuguese in India, from 1617 to 1640: and the conclusion of the Portuguese Asia of Manuel de Faria.

SECTION XV. Occurrences in Pegu, Martavan, Pram, Siam, and other places.

SECTION XVI. A short account of the Portuguese possessions between the Cape of Good Hope and China.

CHAPTER V.

Voyages and Travels in Egypt, Syria, Arabia, Persia, and India.
By Ludovico Verthema, in 1503.

Introduction

SECTION I. Of the Navigation from Venice to Alexandria in Egypt, and from thence to Damascus in Syria.

SECTION II. Of the City of Damascus.

SECTION III. Of the Journey from Damascus to Mecca, and of the Manners of the Arabians.

SECTION IV. Observations of the Author during his residence at Mecca.

SECTION V. Adventures of the Author in various parts of Arabia Felix, or Yemen.

SECTION VI. Observations of the Author relative to some parts of Persia.

SECTION VII. Observations of the Author on various parts of India.

SECTION VIII. Account of the famous City and Kingdom of Calicut.

SECTION IX. Observations on various parts of India.

SECTION X. Continuation of the Authors Adventures, after his return to Calicut.

SECTION XI. Account of a memorable Battle between the Mahometan Navy of Calicut and the Portuguese.

SECTION XII. Navigation of the Author to Ethiopia, and return to Europe by Sea.

CHAPTER VI.

Voyages and Travels of Cesar Frederick in India.

Introduction

SECTION I. Voyage from Venice to Bir in Asia Minor.

SECTION II. Of Feluchia and Babylon.

SECTION III. Of Basora.

SECTION IV. Of Ormuz.

SECTION V. Of Goa, Diu, and Cambaya.

SECTION VI. Of Damann, Bassen, Tana, Chaul, and some other places.

SECTION VII. Of Goa.

SECTION VIII. Of the City of Bijanagur.

SECTION IX. Of Cochin.

SECTION X. Of the Pearl Fishery in the Gulf of Manaar.

SECTION XI. Of the Island of Ceylon.

SECTION XII. Of Negapatam.

SECTION XIII. Of Saint Thome and other places.

SECTION XIV. Of the Island of Sumatra and the City of Malacca.

SECTION XV. Of the City of Siam.

SECTION XVI. Of the Kingdom of Orissa and the River Ganges.

SECTION XVII. Of Tanasserim and other places.

SECTION XVIII. Of Martaban and the Kingdom of Pegu.

SECTION XIX. Voyages of the Author to different parts of India.

SECTION XX. Some Account of the Commodities of India.

SECTION XXI. Return of the Author to Europe.

CHAPTER VII.

Early English Voyages to Guinea, and other parts of the West Coast of Africa.

Introduction.

SECTION I. Second Voyage of the English to Barbary, in the year 1552, by Captain Thomas Windham.

SECTION II. A Voyage from England to Guinea and Benin in 1553, by Captain Windham and Antonio Anes Pinteado.

SECTION III. Voyage to Guinea, in 1554, by Captain John Lok.

SECTION IV. Voyage to Guinea in 1555, by William Towerson, Merchant of London.

SECTION V. Second Voyage to Guinea in 1556, by William Towerson.

SECTION VI. Third Voyage of William Towerson to Guinea in 1558.

SECTION VII. Notices of an intended Voyage to Guinea, in 1561.

SECTION VIII. Voyage to Guinea in 1562, written by William Rutter.

SECTION IX. Supplementary Account of the foregoing Voyage.

SECTION X. Voyage to Guinea in 1563 by Robert Baker.

SECTION XI. A Voyage to Guinea in 1564, by Captain David Carlet.

SECTION XII. A Voyage to Guinea and the Cape de Verd Islands in 1566, by George Fenner.

SECTION XIII. Embassy of Mr Edmund Hogan to Morocco in 1577, written by himself.

SECTION XIV. Embassy of Henry Roberts from Queen Elizabeth to Morocco, in 1585, written by himself.

SECTION XV. Voyage to Benin beyond Guinea in 1588, by James Welsh.

SECTION XVI. Supplement to the foregoing Voyage, in a Letter from Anthony Ingram the chief factor, written from Plymouth to the Owners, dated 9th September, the day of arriving at Plymouth.

SECTION XVII. Second Voyage of James Welsh to Benin, in 1590.

SECTION XVIII. Voyage of Richard Rainolds and Thomas Dassel to the Rivers Senegal and Gambia adjoining to Guinea, in 1591.

CHAPTER VIII.

Some miscellaneous early Voyages of the English.

Introduction.

SECTION I. Gallant escape of the Primrose from Bilboa in Spain, in 1585.

SECTION II. Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, in 1585, to the West Indies.

SECTION III. Cruising Voyage to the Azores by Captain Whiddon, in 1586, written by John Evesham.

SECTION IV. Brief relation of notable service performed by Sir Francis Drake in 1587.

SECTION V. Brief account of the Expedition of the Spanish Armada in 1588.

SECTION VI. Account of the Relief of a part of the Spanish Armada, at Anstruther in Scotland, in 1588.

SECTION VII. A cruising Voyage to the Azores in 1589, by the Earl of Cumberland.

SECTION VIII. Valiant Sea Fight by Ten Merchant Ships of London against Twelve Spanish Gallies, in the Straits of Gibraltar, on the 24th April 1590.

SECTION IX. A valiant Sea Fight in the Straits of Gibraltar, in April 1591, by the Centurion of London, against five Spanish Gallies.

SECTION X. Sea-Fight near the Azores, between the Revenge man of war, commanded by Sir Richard Granville, and fifteen Spanish men of war, 31st August 1591. Written by Sir Walter Raleigh.

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