Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes 20 Volume Set Series

Richard Hakluyt's 12-volume Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, originally published at the end of the sixteenth century, and reissued by the Cambridge Library Collection in the edition of 1903?5, was followed in 1625 by Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes, now reissued in a 20-volume edition published in 1905?7. When first published in four folio volumes, the work was the largest ever printed in England. An Anglican priest, Samuel Purchas (1577?1626) was a friend of Hakluyt, and based his great work in part on papers not published by Hakluyt before his death. As well as being a wide-ranging survey of world exploration, it is notable as an anti-Catholic polemic, and a justification of British settlement in North America. Volume 16 includes accounts of the West Indies, Puerto Rico, Guiana, and Brazil, and of the discovery of the river Amazon.

Part VI: 1. Voyages undertaken by George, earl of Cumberland; 2. Voyage to Saint John de Porto Rico; 3. A large relation of Porto Rico voyage; 4. Voyages to divers parts of America by Englishmen; 5. Relation of Sir Francis's voyage around the world; 6. Thomas Candish his discourse; 7. Master Anthonie Knivet; 8. Relations of Master Thomas Turner of Brasill; 9. The taking of Saint Vincent of Puerto Bello; 10. A voyage into the West Indies; 11. The ile of Trinidad; 12. Charles Leigh his voyage to Guiana; 13. True relation of the traiterous massacre in Santa Lucia; 14. Relation of master John Wilson, 1606; 15. Part of a treatise by Master William Turner; 16. Relation of a voyage to Guiana; 17. The river of Marwin; 18. Discoverie of the river of Amazons; Part VII: 1. A treatise of Brasill; 2. The dutie of the king's majestie in Brasill; 3. Extracts out of the historie of a Frenchman who lived in Brasill.