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Title: Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico In the Years 1599-1602
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NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO THE WEST INDIES AND MEXICO IN THE YEARS 1599-1602,
NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO THE WEST INDIES AND MEXICO.
NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO THE WEST INDIES AND MEXICO IN THE YEARS 1599-1602,
Translated from the Original and Unpublished Manuscript, with a Biographical Notice and Notes by Alice Wilmere.
Burt Franklin, Publisher New York, New York
Published by Burt Franklin 514 West 113th Street New York 25, N.Y.
Originally Published by The Hakluyt Society Reprinted by Permission
SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, G.C.St.S., F.R.S., D.C.L., Corr. Mem. Inst. Fr., Hon. Mem. Imp. Acad. So. St. Petersburg, &c., &c., PRESIDENT.
THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE. } }VICE-PRESIDENTS. REAR-ADMIRAL C. R. DRINKWATER BETHUNE, C.B. }
CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, ESQ., HONORARY SECRETARY.
The manuscript, of which the following is a translation, as literal as the idioms of the two languages admit, is in the possession of Monsieur Féret, the learned and extremely obliging librarian of the Public Library at Dieppe. Of its originality and authenticity there can be no doubt; the internal evidence of similarity in style, diction, and orthography even, with the published account of Champlain's _Voyages in New France_, would alone suffice to establish those points.[1]