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The. Earliest Voyages round the World : 1519-1617. Edited by

Philip F. Alexander. (Cambridge University Press. 3s. net.)—This admirable little book contains contemporary accounts of the first three voyages round the world, by Magellan (1519.22), Drake (1577-80), and Cavendish (1580-S8), and a fragment of the 01 describing Moire

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and Schouten's discovery of Cape Horn in 1616. The testa have been carefully revised and annotated and illustrated with portraits and old charts, and there is a capital preface. As an introduction to Hakloyt and the publications of the Hakluyt Society, nothing could be better. As a school text-book, nothing could be more attractive. Cavendish's exploits on the West Coast of South America were as thrilling as any boy could dare.