This book is a faithful reproduction of the original book printed
around 1600, including all the printing errors of that edition,
and this etext maintains that careful reproduction. No spelling
or punctuation corrections have been made, and minimal spacing
adjustments have been made, in order to preserve the historical
value of the original work.
The diacritical ~ (tilde) mark is sometimes used in this book on the
letters a, e, o, u and q. These will display, using the Unicode
combining tilde diacritical, on this device as:
ã, ẽ, õ, ũ, q̃.
The long-s ſ has been replaced by s throughout the etext.
Italic text is denoted by _underscores_.
The subsequent facsimile is made from the original in the possession
of the donor.
Only five copies of it appear to be known: three of these are in
public libraries, and two of the three are more or less imperfect:
one of them wants four pages, and of the other some of the marginal
notes have been cut away, and a portion of a leaf destroyed.
The contents, besides their value in an historical point of view,
are of interest in reference to the biographies of two such men as
Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Hawkins, both of whom perished in the
course of the enterprise to which the pamphlet relates.