Hakluytus Posthumous or Purchas His Pilgrims Containing a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Land Travels by Englishmen and others

Abstract

Thought good here to give an account of my course. Having spent much time in that other World, so little known to This (Tartaria and China) that the parts least known might be made best known: I have comne nearer home, to Russia, and her neighbours, the nearer, or Chrim · Tartars, the Samoyeds, and others; whereof Doctor Fletchers Story being so elaborate (where, though the centre bee Russia, yet his circumference is more generall) and by men judicious which have in those parts enjoyed most honourable employment, and exactest intelligence, commended : I have given the first place