A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08

The Project Gutenberg EBook of A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. VIII., by Robert Kerr This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. VIII. Author: Robert Kerr Release Date: September 3, 2004 [EBook #13366] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GENERAL HISTORY 8 *** Produced by Robert Connal, Graeme Mackreth and PG Distributed Proofreaders. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions. 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.) CHAPTER IX.--(Continued.) Early Voyages of the English to the East Indies before the Establishment of an Exclusive Company. SECTION IV.