III. Transactions during the Government of Martin Alfonso de Sousa, from
1542 to 1543.
IV. Government of India by Don Juan de Castro, from 1545 to 1548.
V. Transactions of the Portuguese in India, from 1545 to 1564, under
several Governors.
VI. Continuation of the Portuguese Transactions in India, from 1564 to
the year 1571.
VII. Portuguese Transactions in India from 1571 to 1576.
CHAP. IV. SECT. VIII. Transactions of the Portuguese in Monomotapa,
from 1569 to the end of that separate government.
IX. Continuation of the Portuguese Transactions in India, from 1576 to
1581; when the Crown of Portugal was usurped by Philip II. of Spain on
the Death of the Cardinal King Henry.
X. Transactions of the Portuguese in India, from 1581 to 1597.
XI. Continuation of the Portuguese Transactions in India, from 1597 to
1612.
XII. Continuation of the Portuguese Transactions, from 1512 to 1517.
A GENERAL HISTORY AND COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.
PART II. BOOK II. CONTINUED.
CHAPTER XI.
EARLY ENGLISH VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY TO AMERICA.
INTRODUCTION.
Although we have already, in the Introduction to the _Second_ Chapter of
this Book, Vol. III. p. 346. given some notices of the voyages of John
and Sebastian Cabot to America in the service of Henry VII. and VIII. it
appears proper on the present occasion to insert a full report of every
thing that is now known of these early navigations:
