And Therewith Is Ioyned An Action More Venterous Then Happie Of Iohn Oxnam Of Plimmouth Written, And Confessed By A Spaniard, Which With His Companie Passed Ouer The Streight Istme Of Darien, And Building Certaine Pinnesses On The West Shoare, Was The First Englishman That Entered The South Sea.

To passe ouer Master Frobisher, and his actions which I haue also newly though briefely printed, and as it

Were reuiued, whatsoeuer Master Iohn Dauis hath performed in continuing that discouery, which Master Frobisher began for the northwest passage, I haue faithfully at large communicated it with thee, that so the great good hope, & singular probabilities & almost certaintie therof, which by his industry haue risen, may be knowen generally of all men, that some may yet still proscute so noble an action. Sir Humfrey Gilbert, that couragious Knight, and very expert in the mysteries of Nauigation amongst the rest is not forgotten: his learned reasons & arguments for the proofe of the passage before named, together with his last more commendable resolution then fortunate successe, are here both to be read. The continuance of the historie, produceth the beginnings, and proceedings of the two English Colonies planted in Virginia at the charges of sir Walter Raleigh, whose entrance vpon those newe inhabitations had bene happie, if it had ben as seruiously followed, as it was cheerefuly vndertaken. I could not omit in this parte the two voyages made not long since to the Southwest, whereof I thinke the Spanyard hath had some knowledge, and felt some blowes:

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