A New Voyage Round the World, by a Course Never Sailed Before
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Excerpt from A New Voyage Round the World, by a Course Never Sailed Before: Being a Voyage Undertaken by Some Merchants, Who Afterwards Proposed the Setting Up an East-India Company in Flanders I do not in this, lessen the Merit of those Gentlemen who have made such a long Voyage, as that round the Globe; but I must be allow´d to say, as the way is now a common Road, the Reason of it thoroughly known, and the Occasion of it more frequent than in former Times; so the World has done wondering at it, we no more look upon it as a mighty thing, a strange and never heard of Undertaking, this cannot be now expected of us, the thing is made familiar, every ordinary Sailor is able to do it, if his Merchants are but qualified to furnish him for so long a Voyage; and he that can carry a Ship to Lisbon, may with the fame Ease carry it round the World. Some tell us, it is enough to wonder at a thing nine Days, one would reasonably then conclude, that it is enough that sailing round the World has been wondered at above a Hundred Years: I shall therefore let the Reader know, that it is not the Rarity of going round the World that has occasion´d this Publication, but if some Incidents have happened in such a Voyage, as either have not happened to others, or as no other People, tho´ performing the same Voyage, have taken notice of, then this Account may be worth publishing, tho´ the thing, viz. The Voyage round the World, be in it self of no Value. It is to be observ´d, of the several Navigators whose Voyages round the World have been publish´d, that few, if any of them, have diverted us with that Variety which a Circle of that Length must needs offer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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