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{Transcriber's Note: Archaic typography which displays the letter "s" in a
form that resembles the letter "f" has been transposed to the modern "s."
British, archaic and inconsistent spellings have been left as in the
original, as have capitalization and italicisation. A few obvious
typographical errors have been changed. Margin notes are indicated where
they occur in the text with {MN} and inserted in full at the end of the
paragraph to which they refer.}





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                                THE TRUE
                                TRAVELS,
                                ADVENTURES,
                                  AND
                              OBSERVATIONS,
                                   OF
                             Captain JOHN SMITH,
                                   INTO
                       EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, and AMERICA,

                        From Ann. Dom. 1593. to 1629.

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                           To the Right Honourable

                          _WILLIAM_ Earl of _PEMBROKE,_
            Lord Steward of His Majesty's most Honourable Houshold.

                            _ROBERT_ Earl of _LINDSEY,_
                         Great Chamberlain of _England,_

                             _HENRY_ Lord _HUNSDON,_
                       Viscount _ROCHFORD,_ Earl of _DOVER,_


               _And all your Honourable Friends and Well-willers._



My Lords,

Sir _Robert Cotton,_ that most Learned Treasurer of Antiquity, having by
perusal of my General History, and others, found that I had likewise
undergone divers other as hard hazards in the other Parts of the World,
requested me to fix the whole Course of my Passages in a Book by it self,
whose noble Desire I could not but