Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world, in sea voyages, & lande-travells by Englishmen and others, wherein God's wonders in nature & providence, the actes, arts, varieties & vanities of men, with a world of the worlds rarities are by a world of eyewitnesse-authors related to the world, some left written by Mr. Hakluyt at his death ... . 4 vols. London: Henry Fetherston, 1625.
Purchas published the first volume of his Pilgrimes series, a compilation of accounts and 'relations' of geographical discovery and exploration, in 1613. Hakluytus Posthumus (1625), and the single-volume 4th edition that appeared in the following year, were a continuation of Hakluyt's seminal Principal Navigations, a similar earlier set of compilations, based partly on manus left by Hakluyt upon his death. Although Purchas was sometimes careless in his scholarship, his collection of narratives is frequently the only surviving source for studying the history of specific explorations. This 1625 printing of Purchas is the only edition that includes a deion of the Native American 'countrey of Mawooshen' (now central coastal Maine).
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